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Franklinton Man Arrested In Undercover Child Sex Operation
Police catch a man allegedly trying to meet a teenage girl for sex.
State trooper Stephen Hammons says Vincent Barber of Franklinton sent sexually explicit text messages and pictures to what he thought was a 13-year old girl's cell phone. Hammons says Barber wanted to meet the made-up girl at a movie theater in New Iberia.
But when Barber got there to pick her up, police were waiting with handcuffs.
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