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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The Pentagon is now involved in the investigation of fifty-seven-year-old Eric T. Gillespie of Pittsburgh, who was accused of using an online chat platform to attempt to solicit sexual contact with a pre-teenage girl from Lebanon County. Gillespie tried to make attempts to arrange a meeting with the girl after he engaged in a conversation with a Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General agent posed as an adult in an online chat platform often utilized by offenders attempting to arrange meetings with children. WPXI confirms that the Pentagon is looking into both his security clearances and his arrest. Gillespie received four felony charges as well as multiple counts of unlawful contact with a minor for his charges. A spokesperson for Govini, the company that he works for on Butler Street told WPXI that the company placed Gillespie on administrative leave as soon as it learned of the charges he is facing.