A longtime criminal defense attorney in Maryland was charged with sexual solicitation of a minor after using the Internet and text messages to set up a sex encounter with someone he thought to be a 15-year-old boy, according to police allegations filed in Montgomery County District Court on Wednesday.

The attorney, Michael D. Dobbs, 57, was released on a $100,000 bond after a hearing in a Rockville courthouse two blocks from his law office.

Alex Cordier, a lawyer who represented Dobbs in the hearing, said: “I look forward to Mike being exonerated. I believe the allegations are wildly different than the full story.”

Over the past two months, according to the allegations, Dobbs was snared by a sting technique known by those working in the criminal justice system, adding to the stunned reaction among some lawyers who know Dobbs.

In the stings, detectives post a message on any number of websites used by people looking for sexual encounters. Once a connection is made — and text messages and emails are exchanged — the detectives hold themselves out to be younger than 16 to the person in the messages. A meeting is arranged. The target of the law enforcement sting arrives and is quickly surrounded by police.




he affidavit written by the detective lays out how the detective set up the sting, and quotes emails and text messages allegedly written by Dobbs.

On Feb. 2, according to the affidavit, the detective posted a message on a website that stated: “young wm seeking older.”

He received an email from a person who identified himself as “Mark RockvilleGuy,” according to court records, which state the detective posed as “Brandon” and asked: “Are you cool with me being 15. Im almost 16.”

Mark RockvilleGuy kept emailing him and then provided a cellphone number, the police account asserts. The detectives said in court filings that police traced the cell number to Dobbs. Mark RockvilleGuy also sent the detective who was messaging a picture of his face, which detectives said in court filings matched Dobbs’s photograph in Motor Vehicle Administration records.

“As a result of text messages and phone calls with Mark RockvilleGuy,” detectives wrote,
“a meeting was set up.”

At 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, undercover officers staked out the parking lot at a rock-climbing facility a mile from Dobbs’s office. The plan, according to police allegations, was for Dobbs to pick up Brandon at the lot and go to Brandon’s house.

As police recalled it, Dobbs drove into the parking lot in a Kia Optima, made a couple of trips around the lot and pulled into a spot at the end of a row. Three detectives quickly appeared and took Dobbs into custody.

Detectives said in court filings that they found an iPhone in the Kia. One of the detectives — who had posed as Brandon — called the number he had for Mark RockvilleGuy and the iPhone found in the Kia rang, police charge.

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A case of entrapment - Pure and simple.

from the "I'm with Her" sticker on his Kia.

What is it with Pedos and Kias?

Former prosecutor from what I heard.

Another white pedo

meth/ gay pedo crimes. An evil addiction corrupting and destroying lives which otherwise would produce good.

After he sent his photo did he think "Brandon must really think he's hit the jackpot"?

sop for gay lifestyle...everything is ok...abomination just like good book says.
too bad milo y. at breitbart doesn't realize how much a victim he was and even excused it publicly as part of his downfall at breitbart