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Utah man charged with soliciting sex from teen lands in jail after reporting alleged Craigslist scam to FBI

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Nicholas Deelstra, 54, called the FBI in late August to tell them he had solicited sex with a purported 16-year-old boy on Craigslist and agreed to have the teen come to his house in North Logan, according to court documents. But the boy never showed up.

Deelstra — an employee with the Office of Rehabilitation in the state Department of Workforce Services — told the FBI that the next day a person claiming to be the teen’s father began messaging him, “demanding he send money to cover car repairs because” the boy damaged the family‘s vehicle while trying to go meet up with the man, court records state.