ARIZONA
USA Today
[with video]
MESA, Ariz. — Technology made it possible for a man to abuse teenage victims thousands of miles away, but it also left a digital trail that eventually resulted in his arrest, police said.
Michael Wayne Coleman, 53, was arrested Jan. 16 and accused of luring a minor for sexual exploitation after a forensic examination of a laptop computer and cellphone uncovered sexually graphic conversations and an exchange of nude photographs with a 17-year-old student in Brazil, said Detective Steve Berry, a Mesa police spokesman.
Police praised Educatius International, a company that primarily arranges for foreign-exchange students to study in the United States, for seizing a company-issued laptop and cellphone from Coleman immediately after it received a complaint from a 16-year-old student.
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