BY KEITH EPPS
A Liberty University student got some bad news yesterday in his dorm room.
He is the latest person caught in a Stafford County detective's trap for suspected Internet predators.
Jamison Dean Gibbs, 22, of Acworth, Ga., was arrested at the school yesterday morning by state police special agents.
He is charged with attempting to take indecent liberties with a child and using an electronic device to solicit a juvenile.
The "juvenile" in this case is Stafford Detective Darryl Wells. Wells is frequently online attracting sexual predators by pretending to be a 13-year-old child.
Investigations involving Wells have resulted in Stafford charges for men all over the country and in Canada.
Sheriff's spokesman Bill Kennedy said Wells was portraying a 13-year-old girl from the Fredericksburg area when he made contact with Gibbs in October.
Kennedy said Gibbs initially asked for "cybersex," then gradually got more and more graphic as the months went on.
Wells continued chatting with Gibbs until the end of March. Kennedy said Gibbs several times tried to set up meetings with the "girl."
Gibbs was jailed in the Lynchburg area under no bond pending transfer to Stafford.
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