— A Spring Lake man who works with people filing sexual harassment complaints at Fort Bragg faces charges of trying to meet an underage girl for sex in Florida.

Edward Arthur Stanley, 60, was charged Aug. 23 with solicitation of a child via computer to engage in sexual conduct, traveling to meet after using a computer to seduce, solicit or lure a child and unlawful use of a two-way communication device. He remains in the Duval County, Fla., jail under a $115,000 bond.

Stanley was among 17 people arrested in Operation DUVAL (Disrupting Underage Virtual Abuse Locally), which was run by authorities in the Jacksonville, Fla., area Aug. 22-27, Sheriff Mike Williams said.

He was in Jacksonville for a National Organization of Victim Assistance training seminar and had arranged to meet someone he thought was 14-year-old girl for sex, the sheriff said. But an underage officer had posed as an underage girl online, and when Stanley arrived at the pre-arranged location, he was taken into custody.

Stanley works as a victim advocate for the 16th Military Police Brigade at Fort Bragg, and officials said he is now on leave. Fort Bragg authorities are cooperating with Florida law enforcement in their investigation.

"The accused behavior does not reflect the Army values, duties, responsibilities, confidence and trust required by his position, nor does it reflect the professionalism of the civilian workforce here at Fort Bragg," spokesman Tom McCollum said in a statement.