A former police officer in Florida was charged Thursday with traveling to meet an 11-year-old girl for sex, authorities said.
Gary Mygdal, aged 73, is accused of engaging in sexually explicit conversations with someone he believed to be a minor and planning to meet her at what he thought was her residence, as reported by the Pinellas Park Police Department.
He was apprehended outside an apartment complex and admitted to officers that he had traveled there intending “for intimate sexual contact” with the underage individual, as per an arrest affidavit obtained by the Tampa Bay Times.
Mygdal served as a Pinellas Park police officer for a decade, from 1974 to 1984, police said.
“No one is above the law, and we will hold offenders accountable regardless of their past positions or affiliations,” Geissenberger said.
Mygdal faces charges for traveling to meet a minor, a second-degree felony in Florida. He is being held at the Pinellas County Jail with a bond set at $15,000, according to jail records available online.
