Thursday, 4:30 PM
Jury ponders former Plymouth selectman's sex solicitation case
By Milton Valencia, Globe Staff
Jurors will resume deliberations tomorrow in the case of a former Plymouth selectman charged with soliciting sex from a minor on the Internet.
Sean Dodgson, 47, was arrested in 2006 on charges he arranged a tryst at a Burger King in Kingston with what he thought were two 13-year-old girls.
The girls were police officers posing undercover. He's also charged with sending lewd pictures over the Internet. He resigned from his seat after his arrest.
Dodgson, who took the stand in his defense, said he knew all along that the girls were law enforcement officials, and that he was simply monitoring the criminal justice system. The case was turned over to the jury this morning.
The investigation was part of a widespread sting called Operation Trenchcoat that resulted in the arrest of more than 20 people in the summer of 2006.
