JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville man has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly attempting to entice a 13-year-old into sexual activity.<\/p>\n
According to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, 37-year-old Jerry Alexander Cobb used his cellphone and the internet between July 18 and August 1 to communicate with someone he believed was a child. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Authorities said Cobb arranged to meet the child and was arrested by FBI agents when he showed up.<\/p>\n Court documents state Cobb repeatedly asked the undercover agent, who posed as a 13-year-old, about sneaking out, being a virgin, and suggested getting a hotel room. He also allegedly asked for an explicit photo.<\/p>\n If convicted, Cobb faces a minimum of 10 years in federal prison, up to life, and possible lifetime supervised release.<\/p>\n Officials said the case is part of Project Safe Childhood, a national Department of Justice initiative to combat child exploitation.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville man has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly attempting to entice a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,38545,13257,9240,91775,91776,13978,64,49006,6517,44516,29664,32328,12192,281,38914,18740,4219,8140,283,18741,1033,23424,3188,723,10767,40900,15191,40901,44523,7310,6616,24985,24717,72700,13155,8142,3228,12846,4630,2934,72702,72703,1812,8145,40906,49453,72704,443,12433,91777,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,311,3851,72705],"class_list":{"0":"post-157966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-auction","10":"tag-authority","11":"tag-background","12":"tag-bang","13":"tag-barrister","14":"tag-book","15":"tag-business","16":"tag-buy","17":"tag-case","18":"tag-closeup","19":"tag-concept","20":"tag-constitution","21":"tag-contract","22":"tag-court","23":"tag-courthouse","24":"tag-courtroom","25":"tag-crime","26":"tag-criminal","27":"tag-decision","28":"tag-defendant","29":"tag-design","30":"tag-divorce","31":"tag-fl","32":"tag-florida","33":"tag-gavel","34":"tag-guilt","35":"tag-hammer","36":"tag-innocence","37":"tag-isolated","38":"tag-jacksonville","39":"tag-judge","40":"tag-judgement","41":"tag-judgment","42":"tag-judicial","43":"tag-jury","44":"tag-justice","45":"tag-law","46":"tag-lawyer","47":"tag-legal","48":"tag-legislation","49":"tag-mallet","50":"tag-object","51":"tag-office","52":"tag-order","53":"tag-punishment","54":"tag-sentence","55":"tag-symbol","56":"tag-system","57":"tag-trial","58":"tag-tribunal","59":"tag-united-states","60":"tag-united-states-of-america","61":"tag-unitedstates","62":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","63":"tag-us","64":"tag-usa","65":"tag-verdict","66":"tag-white","67":"tag-wooden"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157966","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=157966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}