Man arrested in Cranberry Township accused of trying to solicit sex from girl, 13
A Coraopolis man has been charged with seven felonies after police said he had explicit conversations with agents who were posing as a 13-year-old girl.
Julio A. Torres Arriaga, 28, was arrested Sunday, July 9, in Cranberry Township.
Police said he traveled to Cranberry from McKees Rocks, Allegheny County, on Sunday to meet with the girl at her “home” and was met by agents from the FBI office in Pittsburgh, who had been posing as the girl online.
Torres Arriaga was charged with one count each of criminal attempt of statutory sexual assault and corruption of minors, two counts of unlawful contact with a minor and three counts of criminal use of a communication facility.
He was placed in Butler County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Police said they had been in communication with Torres Arriaga since June via various social media platforms.
In conversation with Torres Arriaga from June 26 to Sunday, July 9, the agents assumed the identity of a 13-year-old girl who lived in Cranberry Township, or a decoy, police said.
Torres Arriaga asked to meet and engage in sexual activities with the decoy, even sending videos of himself performing sexual acts as “guides,” documents showed.
According to the affidavit, Torres Arriaga sent videos of himself, “engaging in sexual acts with another female, and he suggested they engage in the same sexual activity.”
Federal agents informed Cranberry Township police of an investigation into Torres Arriaga, who is not a legal citizen of the United States, documents showed.
Torres Arriaga is scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing July 21 before District Judge Kevin Flaherty.
