MIAMI \u2014 A 62-year-old man stands accused of planning to meet a 15-year-old girl to pay her for sex in Miami, according to police. <\/p>\n
Ricardo Mitchell was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Monday night without bond, according to inmate records. <\/p>\n
Mitchell, of Naples, connected with an undercover investigator online, \u201csent several explicit messages and expressed his interest in having her perform oral sex on him in exchange for $100,\u201d and wrote \u201che would pay her for videos … sexy pictures, her college tuition, and every time she got an A,\u201d according to police. <\/p>\n
Before the scheduled meeting, detectives conducted a felony stop and detained Mitchell, who was driving a 2020 silver Ford pick-up truck, according to police. <\/p>\n
Mitchell had more than $1,000 in cash, erectile dysfunction medications, and the phone used during the online interactions, according to police.<\/p>\n
Police officers arrested Mitchell at 8:05 a.m. on Saturday in Miami. Miami-Dade corrections booked him at 1:40 p.m. on Saturday at TGKCC. He appeared in court on Sunday, and a judge granted his pre-trial detention. <\/p>\n
Mitchell faced four charges: Human trafficking a minor for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation; traveling to meet a minor after use of a computer to lure a child; intentionally lure, solicit, seduce, or entice a child to engage in sexual conduct over a computer; and attempt to promote sexual performance by a child. <\/p>\n
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge William Altfield is set to preside over the case. <\/p>\n
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