GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KSNB) - A Grand Island man will be sentenced in December in connection with an undercover sex crime investigation.

Court records show 23-year-old Oscar Linares Mendez was convicted of attempted use of an electronic device to commit sexual assault.

An affidavit shows Linares Mendez began communicating via social media with an undercover Nebraska State Patrol investigator posing as a 14-year-old girl. Linares Mendez sent nude pictures and requested various sex acts on social media.

The undercover officer arranged a meet-up at a Grand Island grocery store on May 2nd and Linares Mendez was arrested.

Prosecutors originally charged Linares Mendez with use of an electronic device to commit sexual assault and with enticement by electronic device.

But the charge was amend

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