Man wanted in child luring case arrested in Lindsay

LINDSAY - A man wanted by

Kawartha Lakes Police on charges of child luring and other child pornography-related charges has been arrested as the result of a shoplifting incident Tuesday afternoon at a downtown Lindsay grocery store.

Kawartha Lakes Police were called to Reid’s Valumart on Russell Street just after 3 p.m. Tuesday after staff at the store saw a man conceal some food items and attempt to leave the store without paying for them.

When officers arrived, they realized the man arrested by store staff was also wanted by Kawartha Lakes

Police in an investigation into a man who was seeking out young girls on the internet.

That investigation began in May after the London Police Service was contacted by a 16-year-old girl after a man had used a fake Facebook account to establish contact with the girl and eventually try to coerce her into sending him pornographic pictures of herself. The man had also sent her pictures of his genitals to her.

When the girl provided pictures to the man he sent them to other people he had befriended on Facebook.

London Police investigators determined the man was a Lindsay resident, which resulted in the investigation being forwarded to Kawartha Lakes Police.

Earlier this month Kawartha Lakes Police issued a warrant for the arrest of Robert Darryl Brown, 48, of Lindsay.

After his arrest Tuesday, Brown was charged with luring a child, unlawfully possessing child pornography, distributing child pornography, publication of intimate images without consent, making sexually explicit material available to a child, theft under $5,000, possession of stolen property under $5,000 and failing to comply with a recognizance. He was placed in custody and appeared in Ontario Court of Justice in Lindsay on Thursday.