[b class="Dateline"]DETROIT -- [/b]A U.S. Justice Department official has been arrested on suspicion of traveling to Detroit over the weekend to have sex with a minor.
John David R. Atchison, 53, an assistant U.S. attorney from the northern district of Florida, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Detroit Monday afternoon. An undercover officer posed as a mother offering her child to Atchison for sex, according to police. The detective, acting as the child's mother, allegedly arranged a sexual encounter between Atchison and her 5-year-old daughter, police said.
Prosecutors said Atchison flew from Pensacola, Fla., to Detroit on Sunday intending to have sex with the 5-year-old girl.
Atchison, a member of the Florida bar association since 1984, lives in Gulf Breeze, Fla., near Pensacola. He is president of the Gulf Breeze Sports Association, a youth athletics organization. His wife is a science teacher at Gulf Breeze High School.
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