TAMPA BAY, FL — A deeply unsettling report is making the rounds online, accusing a Tampa Bay deputy of trying to have sex with an underrage boy.

Deputy Matthew Bondi has been charged for “luring or enticing a minor into sexual activity.”

According to reports, the child was just 15-yrs-old.

Deputy Bondi was sending the child graphic sexual images, according to reports.

He then traveled to South Florida where he assumed he would be having sex with the young boy.

Instead, he was captured by investigators.

This deputy was in a trusted position to “serve and protect,” but if the reports are true then he was actually preying on an innocent child.

The Associated Press reports as follows:

A criminal complaint says Bondi began exchanging graphic messages with an actual teenager in early June, but a detective took over the boy’s phone in July and continued the conversations.

Bondi joined the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office in January and was still in his probationary period when officials decided to fire him.

Bondi was being held in the Broward County Jail without bond. Jail records didn’t list an attorney.