Bossier City Man Arrested for Soliciting a Minor

BSO coordinates with FBI to arrest a Bossier City man for Computer Aided Solicitation of a Minor. The FBI Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force, coordinated with the Bossier Sheriff’s Office to arrest Brett Booth, 43, of Bossier City on December 9th during an undercover operation through social media.

Booth believed he was meeting a juvenile for sex in a location in Bossier City. Booth met FBI Task Force members instead and was arrested for Computer Aided Solicitation of a Minor. Booth was booked into the Bossier Parish Maximum Security Jail with a bond of $75,000.

The mission of the FBI's Violent Crimes Against Children program is to:

• Provide a rapid, proactive, and comprehensive ability to counter all threats of abuse and exploitation to children when those crimes fall under the authority of the FBI
• Identify, locate, and recover child victims
• Strengthen relationships between the FBI and federal, state, local, tribal, and international law enforcement partners to identify, prioritize, investigate, and deter individuals and criminal networks exploiting children

Investigative Priorities

• Child abductions: the mysterious disappearance of a minor, especially a minor of tender years (12 or younger)
• Contact offenses against children: production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), sextortion, domestic travel to engage in sexual activity with children, and international travel to engage in sexual activity with children
• Sexual exploitation of children: online networks and enterprises manufacturing, trading, distributing, and/or selling CSAM
• Trafficking of CSAM: distribution or possession
• International parental kidnapping: wrongfully retaining a child outside the United States with the intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights

Other crimes against children violations within the FBI’s jurisdiction are investigated in accordance with available resources.