From Maryland State Police:
Maryland State Police arrested a registered sex offender Tuesday on charges he solicited sex from an undercover trooper who was posing as a child over a smartphone app in Harford County.
Scott Dye, 43, of Elkton, Maryland, is charged with one count of sexual solicitation of a minor and three counts of possession of child pornography. He was taken to the Harford County County Detention Center for processing.
According to a preliminary investigation, on Oct. 7 a trooper with the Maryland State Police Computer Crimes Unit was informed by an allied law enforcement agency that Dye was engaging in an inappropriate text chat with who he believed was an underage female. Dye then engaged in another inappropriate conversation with the trooper, who was posing as a 15-year-old female.
The suspect suggested meeting with whom he thought was the minor yesterday in Bel Air, Maryland. According to a preliminary investigation, Dye arrived at that location and troopers arrested him at the scene.
The Maryland State Police Computer Crimes Unit coordinates the Maryland Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. This is a combined law enforcement effort involving police departments across Maryland that is made possible in part due to grant funds provided by the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention, Youth and Victim Services and by a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. Task force investigators focus on identifying those involved in child pornography via the Internet and other related crimes that victimize children.
Cp says
Hopefully then turn him
Loose in Gen Pop up at the Harford Hilton .. they don’t take kindly to pervs up there ! Sadly tho he will prob get a slap on the wrist & sent free to commit this crime again NOT on a cop this time though & will destroy a child’s life . There is no place in this world for vile pervs like this
Mike says
Yo why waste our tax money due that nigga in I mean take his breath
Cp says
Fully agree & if it was my child the cops would have NEVER made it to arrest him ! But we all know how it goes around here they will let this perv walk with a slap on the wrist ! Disgusting ?
Cp says
Fully agree & if it was my child the cops would have NEVER made it to arrest him ! But we all know how it goes around here they will let this perv walk with a slap on the wrist ! Disgusting ?
SB says
You got that right
lon staghorn says
troubling…just look at him…
Anthony says
Agree! Harford county just arrested another man for sexual abuse on a minor in darlington meadows. He’s wanted in Colorado for the same thing and has prior conviction in Illinois. Robert T Jackson