City man arrested on child sex charges

Stafford County authorities have arrested a Charlottesville man and charged him with using the Internet in an attempt to have sex with a child.

A Stafford sheriff’s detective had been portraying himself as a child on the Internet for two months and communicating with Douglas Emory Loyd, according to Bill Kennedy, sheriff’s spokesman.

Loyd, 61, was arrested Wednesday when he showed up in Stafford to have sex with a person he believed to be a juvenile, according to Kennedy.

The Charlottesville man had been communicating with the fictitious child via the Internet about having oral sex and intercourse, Kennedy said.

Loyd, who lives on Idlewood Drive, faces three counts of attempted indecent liberties with a child and three counts of using electronic communications to solicit a juvenile. He is being held at the Rappahannock Regional Jail in Stafford.