BURLINGAME, Kan. – The Osage County Sheriff’s Office has reported the arrest of a Burlingame man for electronic solicitation of a child, as the result of an ongoing investigation.

Osage County Sheriff Chris Wells reported in a press release that Ronald R. Shaffer, 78, of Burlingame, Kan., was taken into custody without incident the afternoon of April 7, 2021, and arrested for suspicion of electronic solicitation of a child and indecent solicitation of a child.

The sheriff said the sheriff’s office’s criminal investigation unit arrested Shaffer after he had made plans to meet with someone he believed to be a 15-year-old child.

Shaffer was booked into the Osage County Jail.