WADESBORO — A Wadesboro man has been arrested and charged with attempting to solicit sex from a minor.
Justin Adam Hathcock, 22, has been charged under NC General Statute 14-202.3(c)(2) with “solicitation of a child by computer or certain other electronic devices to commit an unlawful sex act and actually appearing,” according to a press release from the Wadesboro Police Department.
WPD partnered with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and the Anson County Sheriff’s Office on a sting operation that resulted in the arrest Hathcock on April 5.
No minors were harmed as a result of this investigation, WPD said.
Hathcock is held at the Anson County Jail under at $150,000 secure bond and is scheduled to appear in court on April 12.
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