Grovetown Police Department has charged a man for allegedly engaging in sexual conversation online with someone he believed to be a young teen.

Police say the department was conducting an undercover operation, in which Vareck Lites, 52, had conversation of a sexual nature with an undercover investigator. That investigator was posing as a 14 year old during the sting. 

Further investigation indicated Lites was a registered sex offender in South Carolina, having been charged in 1995 with committing or attempting to commit a lewd act on a child in Greenwood.

Lites has been charged by Grovetown Police Department with obscene internet contact with a child and was booked into Columbia County Jail on April 19.

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