A Lincoln man who thought he was messaging an underage girl for sex ended up communicating on social media with an undercover LPD officer. Public Information Manager Erika Thomas says it all began June 11th when 34-year-old Luke Woodral sent a friend request to an undercover social media account run by an LPD Special Victims Unit.
“Woodral began to message with the account, which identified as a 15-year-old girl from Lincoln,” Thomas says. “The conversations became sexually explicit and included the suspect sending sexually explicit photos and videos of his genitals.”
She says on Tuesday Woodral and the undercover officer made plans to meet in person for sexual contact on Wednesday morning. “SVU investigators met him at a bench in Sunken Gardens and he was taken into custody shortly after 10:15 a.m.”
Woodral was taken to the Lancaster County Jail and booked for sexual assault: child enticement by an electronic device.