COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. – A 39-year-old Cottage Grove man who is accused of having inappropriate online communications with a minor child was arrested on Thursday, according to the Lane County Sheriff’s Office.
LCSO officials said that deputies began an investigation in May of an adult man, identified as Frank Dylan Hendricks, who had allegedly engaged in sexual conversations online with a minor child. The LCSO, assisted by the Cottage Grove Police Department, obtained and served a search warrant at the 2300 block of East Main Street in Cottage Grove, sheriff’s deputies said. Authorities said that Hendricks was subsequently arrested and transported to the Lane County Jail where he faces charges of using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct, second-degree online sexual corruption of a child, luring a child, and second-degree encouraging child sexual abuse…