SAN ANTONIO – A 32-year-old man is accused of trying to have sex with what he believed were three underage girls — the Bexar County Sheriff said they were all undercover deputies.
Brandon Felan was arrested and charged with online solicitation of a minor, a second-degree felony.
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He is currently booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center.
A BCSO deputy, posing as a 16-year-old girl, was in communication with Felan through a anonymous online texting app, Sheriff Javier Salazar said in a press conference on Friday. He allegedly made inappropriate requests and acts through messages.
The Secret Service worked alongside BCSO in this operation and Salazar said federal authorities were already familiar with Felan from a prior sting operation attempt in April.
That operation fell flat because he stopped talking to the undercover detective and didn’t meet up with the underage child, according to Salazar.
This time Felan planned to meet up with the 16-year-old girl at a restaurant in the 10700 block of Potranco Road, Salazar said, and was arrested by a SWAT team at the scene.
“Three different instances where he thinks he’s talking to three different underage girls, when in reality he’s talking to three undercover operatives,” Salazar said.
Felan had a connection to the military, according to Salazar.
“He’s some kind of contractor that had been doing some work at Lackland (Air Force Base),” Salazar said. He doesn’t believe any actions related to the crime were committed on base.