A 24-year-old New Mexico State University student is busted for trying to have sex with what he thought was an underage girl he met on the internet.
CLOVIS (AP) -- A Laguna Pueblo man has been accused of arranging to meet an underage girl for a sexual encounter after chatting with her online.
Stuart Romero, 24, faces one felony charge of child solicitation by electronic device.
Romero allegedly began chatting online with an undercover agent that was pretending to be an underage girl from the Clovis area.
Investigators say the conversations became sexually graphic and Romero asked to meet the girl for sex.
Romero planned to travel to Clovis to meet the girl. Afterward, he planned to continue on to Las Cruces, where he attends New Mexico State University.
Romero was arrested after showing up at a decoy house Sunday.
Romero is being held on a $20,000 cash-only bond.
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