{"id":485811,"date":"2026-02-19T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485811\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:01:07","slug":"ottawa-man-arrested-and-charged-for-luring-children-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485811\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa man arrested and charged for luring children online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish-date\">Posted Feb 19, 2026 11:56:44 AM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-modified-date\">Last Updated Feb 19, 2026 11:56:53 AM.<\/p>\n<p>A 63-year-old man is charged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawapolice.ca\/en\/news\/63-year-old-man-charged-with-child-luring-offences.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">with child luring after a probe by Ottawa police found that a suspect<\/a> was making sexually explicit material available to minors. <\/p>\n<p>In a press release, officers said on Feb. 17, they searched a residence in south Ottawa in connection with a child luring case. At the home, they arrested James R. Walker for making sexually explicit materials available to a person under the age of 16 and communicating with a person under the age of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Police revealed the suspect used multiple online names, and they believe more victims are likely. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the usernames include:<\/p>\n<p>WalkingMyDogOtt<\/p>\n<p>ottmale69<\/p>\n<p>WalkingMyDog<\/p>\n<p>a10-4rubbyducky<\/p>\n<p>Officials are asking anyone with information to reach out to Ottawa police at 613-236-1222, ext. 5660. Tips may also be sent electronically to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.citynews.ca\/2026\/02\/19\/child-luring-charges-laid-in-online-police-investigation\/mailto:ICE@ottawapolice.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ICE@ottawapolice.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted Feb 19, 2026 11:56:44 AM. Last Updated Feb 19, 2026 11:56:53 AM. A 63-year-old man is charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-485811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}