Richard Timothy Wagoner, a 30-year-old Farmington receptionist, was arrested Wednesday after Farmington police, working with the state Attorney General's Office, said they found that Wagoner had been communicating via e-mails and Internet instant messenger services with a 12-year-old Colorado boy, the Farmington Daily Times reported in its online edition.

An arrest-warrant affidavit said police were alerted when the boy's mother logged onto Yahoo Messenger under her son's screen name and began receiving pop-up messages from Wagoner, the Daily Times reported.

Then, police allege, a sexually charged conversation ensued between Wagoner and the boy's mother who pretended to be a 13-year-old child, the paper reported.

The 12-year-old boy was originally from the Aztec and Bloomfield areas, police told the Daily Times.

According to the affidavit, Wagoner admitted to police that he had "chatted" sexually with the boy online and had been in contact with two other Farmington children, but denied possessing any photos of "naked children," the paper reported.

Wagoner is charged with dissemination of material by computer that is harmful to a minor, according to the Daily Times.

For a related story on the dangers lurking on the Internet for young people, see T.J. Wilham's article in Thursday's Albuquerque Journal on warnings from the Albuquerque Police Department. It is currently the most e-mailed story from ABQjournal.com.

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