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LARKSVILLE — Detectives from the Luzerne County District Attorney’s office arrested a man Wednesday after he admitted to sending multiple lewd pictures and text messages to a minor.

Richard Bonk, 45, of Nanticoke was taken into custody after detectives from Luzerne County, along with the state police Northeast Computer Crime Unit, the Internet Crimes against Children Task Force and officers from the Nanticoke City and Larksville Borough police departments executed a search warrant on his Nanticoke residence on Wednesday.

Bonk was charged with felony counts of unlawful contact with a minor and criminal use of a communications facility, along with a misdemeanor charge of corruption of minors.

According to the criminal complaint:

The Larksville Borough Police Department responded to a home on March 22 for a sex offense call.

Officers on scene came in contact with the complainant, who said that her 11-year-old granddaughter had been receiving lewd images from a man whom she identified as Bonk.

The grandmother told officers that she observed the images on her granddaughter’s phone, and that they included an image of a nude female tied to a bed.

The phone was released to police by the grandmother, and multiple messages were found to be exchanged between the youth and Bonk, including multiple images of naked women taken from magazines and the internet.

Bonk also told the youth that he “loves her” and that he “can’t wait to see her and spend more time with her again,” investigators said.

Investigators received the forensic extraction of the messages taken from the youth’s phone on Tuesday. The mobile number sending the lewd images was verified by investigators to belong to Bonk.

The conversation between Bonk and the youth was found to be explicit in nature, with Bonk describing through images and messages various sex acts he wished to perform with the girl.

On Wednesday, officers made contact with Bonk while executing a search warrant at his home on South Prospect Street in Nanticoke.

According to the complaint, Bonk said upon the officers’ arrival that he knew why they were there. Bonk admitted to investigators that he may have accidentally sent the girl nude images of adult females over text.

After being read his rights, Bonk was interviewed further by investigators, at which point he told them that he was aware of the girl’s age.

When read the transcripts of the text messages taken from the youth’s phone, Bonk admitted to sending the explicit texts, saying that it was “role playing” and that he was typically under the influence of alcohol or prescription medication while texting the girl.

Bonk chalked up the whole situation as “a mistake.”

He was arraigned in front of Magisterial District Judge David on Wednesday afternoon, and was lodged at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for failure to post $150,000 in bail.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 19.