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Ohio man allegedly drives to West Virginia to meet an underage girl for sex

An Ohio man is facing charges after police say he drove to West Virginia to meet someone he believed was a teenage girl. Investigators say 56-year-old Jerry Christopher Simoncic of Zanesville began chatting online with a Parkersburg police detective posing as a 14-year-old. According to police, the conversation quickly became sexual, and Simoncic expressed plans to travel to Parkersburg for a sexual encounter. Officers stopped him as he drove to the agreed meeting spot and took him into custody. Simoncic is being held at the North Central Regional Jail on a $75,000 bond.

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