A Department of Homeland Security employee was arrested last week for allegedly trying to solicit sex from someone he believed was a 17-year-old girl.

Alexander Steven Back, 41, was among 16 men arrested as part of a sex trafficking operation in Minnesota called “Operation Creep,” Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges announced at a press conference Tuesday, according to Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Back allegedly had been communicating with a police decoy disguised as an underage girl, and was arrested upon his arrival at a hotel where he was expecting to meet the teen.

“When he was arrested, he said, ‘I’m ICE, boys,’” Hodges told reporters, adding that Back was “recently married.”

Back has been a civilian auditor for DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for three years.

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