Fort Walton Beach man arrested for allegedly soliciting 13-year-old for sex

Summer Poole
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FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (WKRG) — A Fort Walton Beach man was booked into the Okaloosa County Jail Wednesday after allegedly sending sexual messages to who he believed was a 13-year-old girl in October 2023, according to his arrest report.

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25-year-old Caleb Shane Hollingsworth is charged with three counts of obscene communication and one count of using a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony.

Caleb Hollingsworth mug shot, placed on a blue background with the WKRG.com logo
A mugshot of Caleb Hollingsworth (Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office).

According to Hollingsworth’s arrest report, in October 2023, he made contact through a social media app with an undercover deputy who was posing as a 13-year-old girl.

The undercover deputy and Hollingsworth began texting, which is when he allegedly asked for sexual encounters on three different occasions.

Deputies subpoenaed AT&T for subscriber information and found that Hollingsworth was the phone user, according to the report.

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On April 11, Hollingsworth voluntarily went to OCSO where he admitted the phone number was his and that he remembered talking to the “13-year-old,” his arrest report said.

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