Salina Post

SALINA — A 33-year-old Brookville man was arrested Monday afternoon at Centennial Park after police said he thought he was going to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex.

Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney said Marcus Smith had arranged to meet who he thought was a teenage girl he met in a Craigslist ad on Oct. 7. The girl turned out to be a undercover officer with the Kansas Internet Crimes against Children Task Force, based out of Sedgwick County.

Sweeney said Smith had also sent sexually explicit pictures of himself to the girl.

Smith was booked into jail on suspicion of attempted aggravated indecent liberties with a child, attempted criminal sodomy with a child, electronic solicitation, sexual exploitation of a child, and driving while suspended.