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Grandpa arrested after Internet sting
Alabama man has no criminal history
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A 56-year-old grandfather was arrested late Monday morning after he reportedly arrived at a rendezvous point where he thought he was meeting a 13-year-old girl he had met online. According to Newton County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Bill Watterson, Timothy Copeland Lunsford of Troy, Ala., had been speaking with an investigator he believed was a 13-year-old girl for approximately one year on Yahoo messenger. During that time Lunsford allegedly had explicit conversations and sent explicit photographs to an investigator posing as the young girl.