Gainesville man charged with felony travel to meet a child after luring her online
A 21-year-old Gainesville man was arrested Saturday and charged with an obscene communication felony count of travel to meet a child after attempting to lure what he thought was a 15-year-old girl online to meet him for sex, according to police reports from the Alachua County Sherriff s Office.
The reports stated Robin Lockey Strickland Jr., of 3510 NE 72nd Ave., met a girl on the dating app Plenty of Fish from his phone. Her age was listed as 18, but after he asked what she was looking for and her phone number, she told him she was actually 15. He called her jailbait but kept the conversation going.