Lincoln County, OR. – Official Release: From November to early December 2024, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office used decoy social media accounts for online child luring investigations. During the investigation, Deputies posed as underage children on various online social media platforms and were contacted by an adult male who was offering to meet for sexual encounters.
On December 2nd, 58-year-old Danny Hicks, of Dallas, Oregon, was arrested and charged with the crimes of Luring a Minor, Online Sexual Corruption of a Child in the second degree, Encouraging Sexual Abuse of Animals, and Attempted Using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct.
At the time of his arrest, Danny was already lodged at the Lincoln County Jail with similar charges stemming from a similar investigation conducted by the Lincoln City Police Department.
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office wants to encourage parents to monitor their children’s social media activity and discuss with them the possible dangers of communicating with strangers online. These investigations are conducted in an effort to reduce criminal activity and to further enhance the safety of our community.
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A big ‘Thank You’ goes out to the Lincoln City Police & also to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Dept. for helping to keep kids safe, as well as all citizens, by getting this predator off of our street’s.
With sincere gratitude, from a resident of Lincoln County & who’s also a Mom of two, again I ‘Thank You’!
Salina G.