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Jenks police arrest alleged child predator

Posted at 3:44 PM, Mar 11, 2018
and last updated 2018-03-12 04:51:28-04

JENKS - Jenks police arrested an alleged child predator Friday morning.

Jenks Police Sgt. Melissa Brown said an undercover officer was in contact with the alleged suspect, Anthony Peterson, 29, via Facebook, before he was arrested.

According to OSCN, a warrant was issued for Peterson's arrest on March 2. 

Peterson was charged with three counts of lewd or indecent proposals to a child. His bond is set at $75,000.

"We have a search warrant issued for his cell phone, but don't have any details on the lewd proposal charges," Brown said.

Peterson has a court date set for Friday, March 16, according to OSCN.

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