—A St. Johns County judge has found a Starke man accused of trying to arrange sex with a child through an undercover St. Johns County sheriff’s investigator incompetent to stand trial because of an intellectual disability and has ordered him to undergo six months of competency training.
—Roger Curtis Crews, 39, is charged with two counts of using a computer to solicit a parent or guardian for unlawful sexual conduct with a child and two counts of unlawful use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony, according to court records.
—The judge’s order falls under Florida laws governing criminal defendants with intellectual disabilities. The judge’s ruling was based on an evaluation by the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities. The statue requires the defendant to undergo six months of competency training, after which he will be evaluated again. Crews will complete the training at the St. Johns County Jail, according to his attorney, Dan Sikes of Starke.
—Sikes said he does not expect the training to restore Crews’ competency.
—According to a probable cause affidavit filed with the arrest warrant, an undercover St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office investigator posed as both a father and his 11-year-old daughter between Feb. 24 and March 24. A man identifying himself as “Roger” contacted the undercover “father” through a social networking site, and the conversation then moved to text messages and phone calls, the affidavit states.
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