The married father of three is an assistant U.S. attorney based in Pensacola, Fla., and president of a youth sports association in Gulf Breeze.
He was arrested Sunday and was initially placed on a suicide watch, but the watch was lifted at the request of the defense, after Atchison assured a U.S. magistrate Tuesday he wouldn’t harm himself.
Atchison was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after arriving for a meeting with someone authorities say Atchison thought was the mother of a 5-year-old girl with whom he allegedly arranged to have sex. The woman was actually a Macomb County sheriff’s detective participating in an Internet sex sting operation.
Atchison was charged with three felonies, the most serious of which is crossing state lines with intent to have sex with someone under 12.
Shouldn’t that instead read “rape”?
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Ahhh … the post that NiT muzzled. Because I called him what he is, a Republican.
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