Man was arrested last July during undercover internet operation in Polk County ~ TALLAHASSEE, FL - Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Seminole County man has been sentenced to just over two years in prison for traveling to meet someone he thought was a child, intending to have sex with that child. Sasha Barber was arrested during a July 2007 undercover internet operation in Polk County and pleaded guilty today to using a computer to seduce a child and attempted use of a computer for child exploitation. Barber was prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution and must register with the state as a sex offender after he is released from prison. The undercover operation, led by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd's office, netted the arrests of 25 individuals who, over the course of only four...
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