Wednesday, February 25, 2015

State Dept. official charged with soliciting minor

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S. State Department official will be headed to Virginia to face a charge of soliciting a minor following his arrest in Washington, D.C.

Daniel Rosen appeared Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court, where he waived extradition to Virginia. An online court record did not list an attorney for him, and no one responded to a request for comment left at a telephone number associated with his address Wednesday.

Lucy Caldwell, a spokeswoman with the Fairfax County Police Department in northern Virginia said Rosen was arrested at his Washington home around noon Tuesday.

Rosen, 44, was arrested "following a series of online exchanges" with a detective assigned to the Fairfax County Police Department's Child Exploitation Unit, Caldwell said. He was charged with one count of using of a communications device to solicit a juvenile, Caldwell said. Court paperwork in Washington said he was wanted for "obscene communication." .... http://hosted.ap.org