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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- A former Clark County prosecutor accused of attempting to meet an underage girl at a park for sex now faces a federal charge connected to his arrest last year, the 8 News Now Investigators confirmed Tuesday.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said 17 people were arrested during an undercover operation targeting online child sex predators.
A Las Vegas prosecutor accused of attempting to meet an underage girl at a park for sex was caught up in a law enforcement sting operation, police documents said.
A prosecutor for the Clark County District Attorney's Office faces charges including statutory sexual sexual seduction, court records showed.
Tanner Castro, a deputy district attorney, faces charges of luring or attempting to lure a child or mentally ill person with use of computer technology to engage in sexual conduct and attempted statuary sexual seduction by a person over 21, according to the Henderson Justice Court website.