A 47-year-old employee of the Baldwin County School District in Alabama is facing federal indictment after allegedly driving to Florida to pay for sex with someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl.
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida John P. Heekin announced the charges against Christopher W. Glover, of Simms, Alabama. Glover has been indicted on counts of Attempted Sex Trafficking of a Minor, Attempted Enticement of a Minor, and Traveling in Interstate Commerce to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct.
According to evidence presented during a detention hearing in Pensacola federal court, Glover had been communicating with a person he thought was a teenage female in October.
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Prosecutors allege that during these exchanges, Glover offered to pay the minor hundreds of dollars in return for sexual acts.
Authorities say Glover then traveled from Alabama, where he worked for the school district, to Pensacola to meet the girl. The individual he was communicating with, however, was an undercover law enforcement officer during an operation in Escambia County, Florida, dubbed “Operation Twelve Parsecs.”
Glover was taken into custody immediately upon arriving in Pensacola to carry out the encounter.
He remains in the custody of the United States Marshals Service pending trial.
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Glover is scheduled to appear for trial before U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell, II at the United States Courthouse in Pensacola on February 17, 2026. If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison, with a potential maximum sentence of life imprisonment. A conviction would also require lifetime registration as a sexual offender and a period of supervised release.
The investigation was a joint effort involving the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Florida Highway Patrol, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Assistant United States Attorneys David L. Goldberg and Jessica S. Etherton are prosecuting the case.
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