MENTONE — An Argos man is being charged with child solicitation after sending nude photographs to a local girl and inviting her to a hotel.

Albert Presston Miller Jr.

Albert Presston Miller Jr., 28, 561 North Michigan St., Argos, is being charged with child solicitation of a child between 14 and 16 years old, a level 5 felony.

On June 6, an officer with the Mentone Police Department spoke with a witness who advised that she found two photographs of a male penis and text messages about meeting at a hotel room with Miller on the victim’s cellphone. Miller also asked the victim to send him photographs of herself.

The witness advised she knew the man was Miller because she recognized the phone number and Miller in the photographs. Officers called the number that sent the photographs and Miller answered the phone.

The officer obtained copies of the nude photographs and text message conversations from the victim’s phone. In the text messages, Miller requests photographs and tells the victim that he would help her take the photos if he was there. Miller then told the victim that he had a dream about them kissing and doing other things in a hotel room. Miller told the victim that they needed to get a hotel room for a night, weekend or two weekends.

Miller was booked into the Kosciusko County Jail on Oct. 17 with a $10,250 surety and cash bond.