Pineview chief charged with sending explicit e-mail to minor
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Posted 4:15PM on Wednesday, July 31, 2002
PINEVIEW - Authorities say the police chief of the Wilcox County town of Pineview was arrested Wednesday after repeatedly sending sexually explicit e-mails to Florida law enforcement officers posing as a 13-year-old girl. <br>
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Chief Ray Monk was charged with soliticing sexual activity from a minor and transmitting harmful material to a minor. <br>
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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Monk sent the e-mails between June 27 and July 27 to sheriff's officers from Columbia County, Florida, who regularly try to catch Internet pedophiles. <br>
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Monk is also an officer at Wilcox State Prison in Abbeville. He faces extradition to Florida.