DAVIDSON COUNTY MAN CHARGED WITH MULTIPLE COUNTS OF SOLICITATION, EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR FOLLOWING UNDERCOVER TBI OPERATION

TBI special agents with the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force posed as pre-teen and teenage girls in an undercover internet chat operation, resulting in the arrest of an Antioch man, for sending graphic photos and text messages.

Since July, ICAC special agents conducted an undercover chat operation via social media messenger applications. Undercover agents took on the personas of 12- and 13-year-old females, and became engaged in chats with an individual later identified by agents as Scott Quarles. The chats were graphic and sexual in nature, and the investigation revealed tha...