17
January
NEW LAW COULD NAIL ‘PERV’
Matthew Brand, a 37 year old New Jersey man, has been charged with soliciting sex from a minor after asking an FBI agent posing as a 13 year old girl on the Internet if she wanted to be his Valentine. Brand was arrested at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on February 12, 2004, where he had arranged a meeting with the girl. An FBI complaint accused him of using the screen name tempoteech during Internet chats with the agent. Brand, of Jackson, identified himself to the undercover as a voice