ARREST IN CHILD PORN CASE

PFMLIT CALIFORNIA, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, General, GOOD POLICING CATCHES SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS, INTERNET OFFENDER CASES

The Sacramento Bee

John M. Ballard, 36, of Dayton, Nevada was arrested Wednesday afternoon in a midtown motel onsex charges. He had made arrangement to meet an undercover police detective who was posing on theInternet as a pedophile, at the motel where the detective was to bring a juvenile female. Ballardwas booked on three counts of attempted child molestation and attempted production of childpornography and is being held in the Sacramento County jail in lieu of $600,000 bail. He isscheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. today.

(California)