Cops use Myspace.com to nab suspect

NAPERVILLE, IL, United States (UPI) -- Police in Naperville, Ill., arrested a man accused of soliciting sex with a 14-year-old girl on the Web site My...


NAPERVILLE, IL, United States (UPI) — Police in Naperville, Ill., arrested a man accused of soliciting sex with a 14-year-old girl on the Web site Myspace.com, the Chicago Tribune reported Sunday.

Jay Coffield, 44, of Morris, Ill. was arrested at a coffee shop in Naperville after relatives of the girl alerted police to the meeting, the newspaper said. Coffield was taken to the Will County Jail in Joliet, Ill. and charged with indecent solicitation of a child, a felony.

Police posed as the girl and had several online chats with Coffield before the meeting, the newspaper reported.

This arrest marks the second time in six weeks that Naperville Police`s Internet Crime Unit has used Myspace.com to arrest a suspect for alleged solicitation of a minor. John R. Wentworth, 27, was arrested May 9 in a similar case.

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