An employee of the Department of Homeland Security was among 16 men arrested last week in a sex trafficking operation in Minnesota looking to catch suspects allegedly soliciting sex from minors.

Alexander Steven Back, 41, was arrested in the multiagency sting dubbed "Operation Creep," according to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges. The men were arrested under suspicion of trying to solicit sex from someone they believed to be a 17-year-old girl.

Officials listed Back as an auditor for Homeland Security Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Court records were not immediately available for Back; NBC News affiliate KARE 11 reported Tuesday that the men had not yet been charged.

"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges told reporters on Tuesday.

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