Joliet man accused of grooming, sending explicit messages to teenage girl

Joliet police have arrested a man for allegedly sending sexually explicit messages to a teenage girl. According to a statement from the Joliet Police Department, Carlos Olazo, 21 of Joliet, was arrested and charged with two counts of indecent solicitation of a child and one count of grooming.Officers responded shortly before noon on Wednesday to an apartment in the 1500 block of Richard T.

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Rivera Way after receiving a tip from the father of the teen, police said.The girl’s father is affiliated with a private group that investigates suspected online predators, and the girl told him she was receiving inappropriate messages and videos on TikTok and through texts, Joliet police said.The girl does not live in Illinois, police said.In reporting the incident to Joliet police, the group said the girl’s father allegedly took over the conversation with Olazo and continued posing as his daughter after she came to him with the messages,The father then took screenshots of the messages, which he lat