Man tries to meet 15-year-old girl for sex, meets detectives instead

A Queensland man has been charged with child sex offences after he allegedly travelled from Mount Isa to Brisbane intending to have sex with an underage girl.

Little did he know he had been speaking online with an undercover Taskforce Argos police officer, who posed as a 15-year-old child on social media.

The 20-year-old man was arrested on Friday at a Taringa fast food business where, police said, he believed he would meet the girl. Instead, he was met by detectives.

The two-month investigation was sparked by a referral from police in Western Australia, who received intelligence the man was being inappropriate with underage girls online.

The man was charged with using the…