LOGAN — A 32-year-old truck driver from Texas has been arrested after trying to meetup for sex with an undercover officer, posing as a teenage girl in North Logan, according to law enforcement. Daniel Antonio Mora was booked into the Cache County Jail after driving to a department store and finding police waiting to question him.
According to the arrest affidavit, a Logan City Police officer received a message from Mora on August 30, asking to hook up. The officer was posing as a 13-year-old girl online.
The suspect reportedly asked the supposed girl to leave school and meet him at the North Logan Walmart. He claimed to have gotten a hotel room across the street, where they could engage in sexual activity.
During the messages, Mora sent several photos of himself. One showed him inside the cab of a red semi-truck. In another, he was wearing a hands-free headset commonly worn by truck drivers. A third picture was a pornographic photo of himself, the probable cause statement described.
Last Friday, police set up a perimeter around the North Logan Walmart and observed a truck matching the suspect’s park in the parking lot. When the driver exited the cab, he was taken into custody without incident.
Officers searched the truck and located several phones, condoms and male enhancement pills. The chats with the undercover officer was discovered on the phones. There was also recent internet searches about undercover law enforcement activity for child sexual predators, jail records detailed.
During questioning at the police department, Mora allegedly confessed to chatting with the undercover officer. He also claimed to have obtained the hotel room through his employer for the purpose of engaging in sex with the supposed girl.
According to court records, Mora was arraigned Tuesday in Logan’s 1st District Court. He was charged with attempted rape of a child, a first-degree felony; enticing a minor, a second-degree felony; and dealing in materials harmful to a minor, a third-degree felony.
Mora is being held in jail temporarily without bail. He could face up to life in prison, if convicted.
Individuals arrested and charged in complaints are presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in court.