MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former
Minneapolis cop is in jail on charges he used the Internet to try to solicit
young girls in Hennepin County. Thirty-two-year-old Bradley James Schnickel is
charged with four felony counts of Internet or computer solicitation of
children.
In February, Schnickel was
charged in Anoka County with using the Internet to prey on at least four girls.
According to the Hennepin
County complaint, Schnickel used aliases in cellphone and Facebook
conversations with an 11-year-old Brooklyn Center girl. Prosecutors say the
conversations were sexually explicit.
The complaint says Schnickel
also had similar sexually explicit conversations through Facebook with a
14-year-old girl.
Schnickel was a five-year
veteran of the Minneapolis Police Department.
He was in the Hennepin County
Jail Thursday. His attorney did not immediately return a call for comment.