A North Texas police chief is on paid administrative leave after allegedly sending an underage girl several explicit messages and acting "very touchy" with her over the course of two years.

The 16-year-old girl — 14 at the time when the alleged activity began — has accused Maypearl Police Chief Kevin Coffey, 49, of sending her explicit messages on Facebook and on her phone and making inappropriate comments about her body, the Ellis County Citizen reported.

Adele Mooney, the Mayor of Maypearl, which is about 40 miles south of Dallas, told NBC DFW that Coffey has been placed on paid administrative leave.

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Texas Rangers and the Ellis County District Attorney's Office began investigating Coffey after the girl's parents complained to law enforcement, NBC DFW reported. Rangers and agents with the Texas Attorney General's Office raided Coffey's home on Saturday, seizing computers, cell phones and his body camera.

A search warrant obtained by the Ellis County Citizen says that Coffey began messaging the girl on Facebook two years ago and communicated with her on a daily basis.

The police chief allegedly sent the teenage girl several inappropriate messages, telling her "you have a nice body" and more explicit remarks, according to the affidavit.

Coffey also would "rub her arm from elbow to shoulder and run his hand through her hair and flip it around," the affidavit said.

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The girl told investigators that Coffey would send her photographs of himself holding handcuffs through the mobile application Snapchat with a caption reading, "One of the (sic) days, hahaha."

The 16-year-old also accused Coffey of communicating with five other girls, according to the affidavit.

Coffey has not been arrested as of Tuesday morning, but faces charges of online solicitation of a minor, stalking, harassment, tampering with evidence, official oppression and misuse of official information, according to the affidavit.

Coffey describes himself on his Twitter profile as a "single dad and police officer from New York now living in Texas, that enjoys meeting new people and making friends."

Coffey's LinkedIn profile states he has been the department's chief since September 2013. Prior to that, he had served as a police sergeant since November 2010.

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