Tulsa Man Arrested For Soliciting Sex From A Minor Through Sexting

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TULSA, OK -- Detectives say 31-year-old Derekco "Reco" Eugene Sells thought he was meeting a 14-year-old student, but police were waiting for him instead.

Officers say Sells admitted to sending numerous nude pictures to a girl's phone and thought she would meet him for sex.

Police say Sells took the minor's phone from her during a football practice and called himself to obtain her number.

The scared minor told her mother who made a police report. A Tulsa Police Detective took over the identity of the minor and began conversing with Sells through text messages.

Sells sent numerous lewd pictures and made sexual proposals to who he believed to be the minor.

He was booked on felony complaints of lewd proposals to a minor child after former conviction of a felony (AFCF), enticing a minor child for sex AFCF, distributing obscene material to a minor child AFCF and attempted second degree rape AFCF. Misdemeanor accounts against Sells are using a computer to solicit sex with a minor child and driving under suspension.

Sells is being held on $150,000 bond.