An officer posing as an underaged girl in a chat room led to the arrest of Doug Abel, 35, of Newcomerstown, Ohio, around 8:15 a.m. Friday at a lumberyard he works at in Ohio's Tuscarawas County.

At the same time, police were delivering the news to Abel's wife at their Newcomerstown home. A computer also was taken from that residence.

Abel was interrogated in New Philadelphia and then driven to Bethesda.

A Bethesda police officer began talking to Abel back in March, saying he was a 15-year-old Belmont County girl.

Although Abel never tried to arrange a meeting, things allegedly got sexual right away when the suspect used his web cam.

The Belmont County Sheriff's Department and the Barnesville Police Department also were involved in the investigation.

Abel faces a charge of dissemenating information harmful to juveniles, a fifth-degree felony.