Man allegedly drives from Alabama to meet decoy teen girls in Crab Orchard

CRAB ORCHARD, Ky. (FOX 56) — A man from Alabama allegedly drove to a Kentucky park on June 28, believing he was going to meet two teen girls there.

Video shows that he faced Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies instead.

Court documents state that deputies were notified that 42-year-old Nathan Miles, of Huntsville, Alabama, had been messaging who he believed to be two 14-year-old girls for around a month and planned to meet them at a Crab Orchard park. But the accounts were decoys, run by a group known as the Ky. Predo Poachers.

The messages were reportedly sexual.

“If it hadn’t been us here today, it would have actually been two 14-year-old girls that lived here locally, which they don’t, but you know that’s our whole goal—awareness of this, to be able to teach people how it’s become so much of an issue,” the volunteer told Miles in a recorded video. “How would you feel about a man in his 40s talking to your 14-year-old daughter?”

Miles was arrested and charged with procuring or promoting the use of a minor by electronic means. He was lodged in the Casey County Detention Center.

The Ky. Predo Poachers have played a part in dozens of arrests across Kentucky using the decoy accounts.

“One decoy account in itself currently has 550 friend requests sitting in it in just the last two weeks of older men,” a volunteer told FOX 56.

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