AURORA, CO (AZFamily) — Police in a Colorado suburb say an airline pilot with ties to multiple states, including Arizona, was arrested in an online child predator operation last month.
According to the Aurora Police Department, authorities arrested Ralph Edward Bledsoe, 68, of Florissant, Missouri, after trying to meet up with who he thought was a child but was an undercover detective. He was booked into the city jail on charges of luring a child, internet sexual exploitation of a child, and attempted sexual assault of a child.
While authorities say it doesn’t appear that Bledsoe had a prior criminal history, investigators believe he may have had sex with minors in Phoenix as well as Denver and somewhere in Pennsylvania…