{"id":1021996,"date":"2026-08-24T23:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021996\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T23:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:50:19","slug":"glendale-man-accused-of-soliciting-sex-from-undercover-officer-posing-as-underage-girl-court-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021996\/","title":{"rendered":"Glendale man accused of soliciting sex from undercover officer posing as underage girl: court documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ksaz-leung-wai-yuen-082426.jpg\" alt=\"Wai Yuen Leung\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>GLENDALE, Ariz.<\/strong> &#8211; Court documents show a Glendale man was arrested and accused of sexual misconduct following an undercover police operation.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The suspect was identified in the documents as 28-year-old Wai Yuen Leung. Investigators say he was taken into custody on the afternoon of Aug. 22.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to Avondale Police, an ad was posted to &#8220;a known website used to host and post advertisements for solicitation of sexual encounters&#8221; during the undercover operation, which lasted from Aug. 21 to 22.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;On [Aug. 21], Leung contacted the undercover officer via text message,&#8221; read a portion of the court documents.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said during the conversation that allegedly involved Leung, Leung asked the undercover decoy to &#8220;engage in sexual encounters for money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;The decoy officer informed Leung she was only 14 years old, at which time Leung stated \u2018OK,\u2019&#8221; read a portion of the court documents. &#8220;The decoy officer then stated \u2018wat u lookin [for],&#8217; and Leung requested to video call. They did not conduct a video call, and the decoy officer stopped responding for a short time,&#8221; investigators wrote. &#8220;During that time, Leung continued to message the decoy to set up a time to meet for the following day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Court documents state that Leung later asked the decoy officer the price for a 30-minute car date. The documents also contain graphic descriptions of the conversations Leung allegedly made with the undercover officer.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police say Leung reached out to the decoy on Aug. 22, and they eventually made plans to meet. Leung was arrested in the area of Grand Avenue and 107th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police say during an on-scene interview with Leung, he said he found the ad on an escort site, and said he knew the person he thought he was talking to was 14 years old.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Per court documents, Leung is accused of a count of child sex trafficking, which is a felony.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A judge has set a $100,000 secured appearance bond for Leung, and should he make bond, he will be subjected to electronic monitoring.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Meanwhile, a preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information for this article was gathered from court documents we obtained on the case on Aug. 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/glendale\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Glendale<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article GLENDALE, Ariz. &#8211; Court documents show a Glendale man was arrested and accused of sexual misconduct following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1021997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,40889,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1021996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-glendale","tag-maricopa-county","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117153172832563919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}