Peachtree City police acted swiftly Wednesday morning to arrest a suspect accused of soliciting sex online from an undercover officer whom he thought was a 15-year-old girl.

Mohammad Bolton, 31, was arrested in the parking lot of a retail store where he had arranged to meet the officer to “engage in a sexual act,” police said.

The reason for the speedy arrest was because Bolton originally asked to hook up with the “girl” at her home, said Police Chief James Murray. When the officer replied that she thought he’d get caught, Bolton informed her it would be no problem because he had done that before, Murray said.

“He said, ‘I do it all the time, it’s not a problem.’” Murray said, adding that Bolton’s confidence really bothered him. “We felt we had to make an arrest because we didn’t know if there were any other potential victims out there.”

Bolton, 31, is a bus driver for Clayton County Schools and is also a youth pastor at the Church of Harvest International on Tara Boulevard in Jonesboro. School and church officials have cooperated with the investigation, and his church computer was seized by detectives Wednesday afternoon so it could be examined for further evidence.

Bolton also exchanged a pornographic photo online with the undercover officer, Murray confirmed.

Police are urging parents to check with their kids to see if they have had contact with Bolton, and if so to call and inform Peachtree City detectives at 770-631-2510.

Bolton was charged with violation of the computer pornography and child exploitation act of 1999. He is the 10th such person charged with that crime since the department began conducting such investigations in May 2004. It came one month to the day since the arrest of Fayetteville resident Peter R. Seckinger, 44, who operated an engineering firm in Peachtree City.

Murray noted that some new surveillance equipment the department purchased enhanced the capability to protect the undercover officer when Bolton approached her.

Bolton was arrested on the scene, where he arrived after completing his bus route in Clayton County, Murray said.

Murray is urging parents to install software to track their children's online activities. Some software can track each and every keystroke made, he noted.

It’s important for such tracking to be thorough, with all necessary passwords determined just in case the child happens to be conversing with a child predator, Murray noted.

In this particular case, all it took was 20 minutes of online contact with a child for Bolton to commit a crime, Murray said.