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Pittsburgh man arrested for sending explicit videos to law enforcement posing as 15-year-old girl

By Patrick Damp

/ CBS Pittsburgh

Cranberry man arrested in underage sting

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP (KDKA) - A Pittsburgh man is facing charges of sending explicit videos to law enforcement agents who were posing as a 15-year-old girl. 

According to Cranberry Township Police, Maksudjon Kosimov was traveling from Cranberry to meet a girl at her home. 

He was later met by agents from the Pittsburgh FBI office who had been communicating with the 23-year-old since Monday through social media. 

Kosimov is in the Butler County Prison on a $250,000 bail. 

Patrick Damp

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.

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