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Trucker nabbed in Internet sex sting

Rosa Ramirez, Rocky Mountain News

Published June 18, 2007 at midnight

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A man who police say believed he was meeting with a 14-year-old to have sex with her in the sleeper of a rig is behind bars.

The Eagle County Sheriff's Office arrested 39 year-old John Mark Love of Grand Junction on Friday, when he showed up for the meeting.

He was instead met by an undercover detective posing as the girl.

Love was charged with enticement of a child, attempted sexual assault of a child, and Internet luring of a child, all felonies, according to an Eagle County Sheriff's Office press release.

Love is being held in the Eagle County Detention Facility on $50,000 bail.

According to authorities, Love drove to Eagle at about 5:30 p.m. June 15 and stopped at a fast-food restaurant so he could watch the movie Ice Age and then have sex with the "girl."

Love had communicated with the undercover detective, whom he believed was a teen, online and through text messages for about six months.

Love is a long-distance truck driver. During a search of his truck, deputies found the DVD player and the movie he said they were going to watch.

The investigation started in December when Love first contacted the undercover detective posing as a 13-year-old girl in an Internet chat room.

The Grand Junction police department is inspecting Love's home computer for other illegal activity, according to a press release.