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UK police tip leads to arrest of Kitchener man on child-luring charges

Waterloo Regional Police Service cruisers behind the Kitchener station. Nick Westoll / File / Global News

A Kitchener man has been charged with luring a child after Waterloo police were given a tip by British police.

Waterloo police say their British counterparts provided them with info that a 36-year-old Kitchener man was communicating with children and adults in a teen chat room.

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The man was allegedly trying to obtain children for a sexual purpose, police said.

Police have charged the man with luring a child and two counts of agreement/arrangement sexual offence against a child.

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