OSAGE COUNTy – Law enforcement authorities have been conducting an investigation regarding the online solicitation of a child by an adult.
On July 1, the Osage County Sheriff’s Office’s Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU) took into custody an adult male who had made plans to meet with someone he believed to be a minor.
Deputies transported Steven E. Spradley, 56, of Kansas City, MO., to the Osage County Jail Facility on a requested charge of aggravated human trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation of a child, and unlawful use of a communication facility.