A Washington DC Metro Transit employee was arrested in Knoxville and charged with scheming to meet an underage girl -- in actuality a Knoxville police officer posing online as a teen.
Christopher A. Riggins, 53, of Laurel, Md., faces a felony charge of solicitation of a minor – aggravated statutory rape, according to a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority release.
Riggins, arrested Sept. 14, has been fired as a result. The Washington Post reported that Riggins was an engineering technician for the transit authority.
While on a business trip in East Tennessee, Riggins "allegedly used a Metro-issued electronic device to arrange to meet with an individual he believed to be a 15-year-old girl" for sex, according to the transit authority.
Riggins actually was communicating with an undercover Knoxville Police Department investigator.
He was arrested at the place -- not identified -- where he thought he'd meet the girl, according to Metro Area Transit.
Riggins was put on leave, and after an administrative review he was fired, according to the transit authority.