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The Linn County District Attorney has filed a charge of attempted use of a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct against Lawrence Glenn Mahlberg, 55, of Sweet Home.

Mahlberg was arrested by Sweet Home Police Aug. 8 at South Fork manufactured home park, 3224 Main St., on three charges.

Mahlberg was arraigned on the attempted use of a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, a class B felony, on Aug. 9. The district attorney's information alleges that the defendant on Aug. 8 unlawfully attempted to involve a child in sexually explicit conduct for a person to observe or to...