WARWICK, R.I. (WHDH) - A Rhode Island Department of Human Services employee is facing charges of indecent solicitation of a child, state police said Tuesday.
State police investigating a suspect allegedly sending indecent sexual material to a person he believed to be 14 years old arrested Dennis J. Lopes, 64, of Hope, Rhode Island after he arrived to meet the 14-year-old at a predetermined location in Warwick, Rhode Island on Friday, officials said.
Lopes is currently employed as a senior resource specialist with the Individual Family Support Services section of the state Department of Human Services. He was arraigned at the state police barracks Friday and released on $10,000 bail.
Lopes is scheduled for a bail review at Third Division District Court on Dec. 3.
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