Man Apprehended In MySpace Sting

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A 32-year-old Corning man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly tried to solicit sex from someone he thought to be an underage girl through the Internet, the Tehama County district attorney’s office said.

Benjamin Dennis, who was booked into Tehama County jail in lieu of $87,500 bail, was arrested on suspicion of attempted lewd and lascivious conduct with a child, contact with a minor to commit a sexual offense and sending sexually explicit material to a minor, all felonies.

The sting operation included the establishment of a fictitious MySpace account and used a district attorney’s office investigator posing as a 13-year-old juvenile.