Published: 4:36 PM CDT June 3, 2021
Updated: 4:37 PM CDT June 3, 2021
MCLENNAN COUNTY, Texas — The McLennan County Sheriff's Office is warning parents that an Austin area man who was recently arrested on charges of online solicitation of a minor may have been in contact with multiple children.
Sheriff Parnell McNamara sent out a news release on Thursday stating that they arrested Henry Spradling on Wednesday, June 2, after he reportedly solicited sex online from undercover detectives posing as a 13-year-old girl around Tuesday, May 25.
According to the news release, Spradling began talking to detectives with the Human Trafficking Unit under the impression they were a 13-year-old girl.