Former Creede resident charged with sex crimes

Christopher Hosselkus

TULSA, Okla.– A Creede native is in custody in an Oklahoma jail after being arrested on eight counts of various child sex crimes according to the Tulsa World newspaper.

Christopher Hosselkus, 29, was reportedly caught in a sting operation by the Tulsa Police Cyber Crimes Unit. He was arrested Feb. 2 after chatting online with an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old girl for nearly a month.

He is charged with six counts of lewd or indecent proposal to a child and two counts of soliciting a minor for indecent exposure.

Hosselkus, a 2008 graduate of Creede High School, was reportedly a childcare worker at a Tulsa church according to the World account. He remains in the Tulsa County Jail on a $125,000 bond.

While chatting with the detective online, Hosselkus allegedly sent numerous indecent photos and engaged in explicit sexual conversation. He also asked the undercover detective to send him nude images, according to a news release.

He reportedly tried to set up a meeting with the undercover detective by asking to wait for him after dark in the parking lot of a church near where he believed she lived. The meeting was reportedly supposed to happen after Hosselkus finished his shift as a childcare worker at another church, according to the World report.

Although the meeting never happened, police reportedly identified him and moved quickly to close their investigation and arrest him. Police executed a search warrant of his apartment on Feb. 2 and arrested him.