POLK COUNTY - A former Auburndale police officer who reportedly stabbed himself last year and fabricated a story about being attacked was arrested Wednesday on charges that he solicited a teenage girl on the Internet.

Jerad Moxley, 25, was arrested at his Eagle Lake home on one count of solicitation of a minor via the Internet, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. He was being held at the Polk County Jail with bail set at $75,000.

The Sheriff's Office said Moxley communicated with the 15-year-old beginning Sunday.

Moxley was arrested in March 2007 on charges he filed a false police report.

While he worked for the Auburndale Police Department, Moxley told authorities he fought off an attacker who stabbed him on a darkened road. But when questioned, Moxley said he stabbed himself, fired his gun and hit himself in the head.

He resigned from the department after that arrest.

Sarah Lundy, Jay Hamburg, Mary Shanklin, Amy L. Edwards, Elo�sa Ruano Gonz�lez and Robert Sargent of the Sentinel staff contributed to this report. Information from The Associated Press also was used.

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