Registered Sex Offender From Oklahoma Arrested for Allegedly Traveling to New Jersey with Plan to Sexually Assault Two Girls
TRENTON – Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and Colonel Patrick J. Callahan today announced that a registered sex offender has been arrested after he allegedly traveled from Oklahoma to New Jersey to meet two men who had offered him access to underage girls for sex. In reality the defendant had been communicating with two undercover detectives from the New Jersey State Police and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Aaron Craiger, 33, was arrested on Wednesday, March 18, by detectives from the New Jersey State Police and special agents from HSI at a motel in Atlantic City where he had stayed overnight after traveling by bus from his home state of Oklahoma. He allegedly planned to meet the two men on Wednesday so he could sexually assault two underage victims. Craiger believed that one man was bringing his 12-year-old daughter for sex, and the second man was bringing his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter. Craiger had condoms with him, as well as a small amount of marijuana, which he had said that he wanted to smoke with the girls. In text exchanges with the undercover detectives, Craiger allegedly detailed the sexual acts he wanted to perform with the girls. He allegedly sent them 10 files of child pornography, and child pornography was found on his phone when he was arrested.
New Jersey State Police and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations arrest man in undercover investigation targeting sexual predators using the internet to locate victims.
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