A US government spokesman has been arrested for trying to seduce a 14-year-old girl online, police said Wednesday. Brian Doyle, 55, deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, was arrested at his home in a Washington suburb late Tuesday, according to a statement released by the sheriff's office in Polk County, Florida.
Doyle contacted the girl, whose profile was posted on the Internet, on March 12 and "initiated a sexually explicit conversation with her. She was, in fact, an undercover detective in Polk County.
"Doyle knew that the 'girl' was 14 years old, and he told her who he was and that he worked for the US Department of Homeland Security," the statement said.
He gave the girl his office phone number and government-issued cell phone number so they could continue communicating by phone, it said.
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