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Authorities use mobile lab in cybercrime bust By Michael Graczyk, Associated Press
HOUSTON ? Texas authorities have gone mobile in their battle against Internet surfers using chat rooms to set up illegal sexual liaisons with underage girls.
Seven men were indicted Wednesday after authorities using a new van equipped with high-speed wireless satellite computer devices, arrested them in Huntsville for arranging to have sex with what they thought were 13- or 14-year-old girls they contacted online. The underage girls really were state investigators.
"This was the rollout of this new mobile lab," Attorney General Greg Abbott said at a Houston news conference. "Now we have the tools, technology and ability to go anywhere in the state of Texas."
The mobile operation, believed to be the first in the nation, is paid with a grant from the governor's office.
"In many of our rural areas, they lack the infrastructure we need to support this kind of investigation," David Boatright, chief of the criminal investigative division of the attorney general's office, said. "So we now have the technology and ability to bring it with us. It's self-contained and we're ready to go."
Charges against the seven indicted Wednesday ranged from attempted sexual assault of a minor to attempted aggravated sexual assault of a child. All are felonies.
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