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SEATTLE – A Seattle University professor has been arrested in Colorado after allegedly traveling there intending to have sex with a teenage girl.

Turns out, it was an undercover Internet investigation that led to the arrest of 41-year-old Maj. Andrew Franz from Kent Monday.

Probable cause documents say Franz started communicating with an undercover detective who was posing as a 30-year-old mother of a 13-year-old girl. The communication started last December in a Yahoo chat room. The documents say Franz asked several graphic questions about the girl's availability and even sent pictures.

The documents say Franz, who went by the user name sugardad4u33, even admitted he worked as a professor at a university and that "the girls who went to the university were too old."

Franz is an associate professor of Military Science at Seattle University, although he technically is not an employee of the school. The Colorado district attorney says Franz engaged in explicit chats on at least one occasion "from his place of work."

Fremont Co. Sheriff's Dept.

Andrew Franz, an associate professor at Seattle University, was arrested near Canon City, Colo. as part of an internet child sex sting on Friday, May 9, 2008.

An undercover officer set up a meeting for last Friday outside Canon City, Colo. The documents say Franz wrote he would bring "muscle relaxants and alcohol" for the girl.

When he was arrested, agents say he had with him "a necklace with cherries on it," "lingerie sets and fishnet stockings," and "a form of Viagra pills."

Franz is being charged with numerous counts including attempted sexual assault, attempted solicitation for child prostitution and attempted child trafficking. He is held on a $50,000 cash only bond.

In a letter to students and staff at Seattle University, Provost John Eshelman says he instructed the Army to end Franz's assignment at the school.