Five Arrested In HR Sheriff/FBI Child Exploitation Sting

Five people have been arrested after the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office and the Portland FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force conducted a joint operation with assistance from the Columbia Gorge Major Crimes Team and Hood River County District Attorney’s Office, to identify and apprehend individuals seeking to commit sexual acts with minor children.  Four adult men and one juvenile male were arrested and lodged at NORCOR on various charges.  30-year-old John Grover Morgan III of Rhododendron and 23-year-old Daniel Garcia of The Dalles are charged with first degree online sexual corruption of a child and luring a minor…44-year-old Brandon David Backman of Hood River and 27-year-old Francisco Ramirez Rendon of The Dalles are charged with first degree online sexual corruption of a child…and a 16-year-old juvenile male from White Salmon is charged with attempted sodomy in the first degree.  Online sexual corruption in the first degree is a Class B felony in Oregon and requires that a person knowingly uses an online communication to solicit a child to engage in sexual contact or sexually explicit conduct and intentionally takes a substantial step toward physically meeting with or encountering a child.

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