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St. Petersburg gym owner accused of sending pornographic material to teenage girl

Updated September 10, 2020 8:49am EDT

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Courtesy: St. Petersburg Police Department

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Christopher Morgan Brown, 41, is accused of engaging in numerous sexually explicit conversations with an undercover detective who was posing as a 14-year-old girl, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.

Police said Brown also sent multiple pornographic images to the undercover detective.

He was arrested on September 8, 2020 and faces felony charges of sending harmful material to a minor.

Brown is an owner of Vertical Ventures gym in St. Petersburg. According to a Facebook post from the business, Brown was with the gym since 2006.

"We would like to announce publicly that we have parted ways with Chris Brown," the social media post read. "To our knowledge none of the these actions took place in the workplace or involved any employees or customers."