what a waste to money and lives. dont these pigs have any thing better to do then play on the internet posing as hot 13 year old girls who want to have sex with older men? arent there any real criminals for these cops to chase? Original Article Student arrested in child sex case Man caught by Tucson news station investigation by Brian Indrelunas published on Thursday, November 10, 2005 An ASU student was arrested and accused of setting up a date with and sending obscene material to a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl, police said. Jed Daniel Poulsen, a 22-year-old computer systems engineering major, was arrested Tuesday in Arizona City, Ariz., about 60 miles southeast of Phoenix in Pinal County. Police also searched his home address there. He was charged with two counts of luring a minor for the purposes of sexual exploitation and three counts of furnishing obscene materials to minors. The man was a subject of an investigative report done by Tucson TV station KVOA Channel 4 and an Internet watch group. Poulson set up a date online with adults posing as the young girl, said Sgt. Mark Robinson of the Tucson Police Department. "He thought he was going to meet a 13-year-old female [at a house rented by the TV station], and instead, he met a reporter and a lot of cameras," Robinson said. Poulsen also allegedly sent obscene material over the Internet to those posing as the minor. Tucson police subpoenaed videotape from the investigation but declined a request from the station to participate in the report. "We would not be a part of their investigative report ... but we treated any kind of material they got as a tip as if it were coming from the community," Robinson said. He said Tucson detectives assigned to Internet cases conduct similar investigations, but the department does not condone such investigations by non-police entities. "We're not interested in getting people on camera," Robinson said. "We're interested in monitoring the Internet." Robinson said the fact that Poulsen was actually communicating with adult investigators from the TV station and watch group does not invalidate the charges. "He thought he was sending [obscene material] to a minor, he thought he was setting up a date with a minor, and that was against the law whether you are or aren't," he said. Officials seized computers and electronic media from his home, according to a press release from the Pima County Sheriff's Department. Robinson said a forensic check of the computer could reveal evidence of other victims and lead to other charges. "That [check] could take months," he said. Poulsen was booked into a Pima County jail and will ultimately be transferred to a jail near Tucson. ASU officials could not comment Wednesday. Reach the reporter at brian.indrelunas@asu.edu.