I’m confused. There was a story headlined “Charges filed against five men in child sex sting” (Herald, May 17.)

The story did not directly say that an advertisement “to lure people in the Four Corners interested in paying for sexual encounters,” was placed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, but that was certainly implied. Pray tell: What does a sex sting operation have to do with homeland security? Are the men who responded to the ad suspected of being terrorists?

Were they planning on strapping bombs to young girls and sending them out in public?

Do we no longer have an FBI? If such an investigation should be undertaken should it not be done by that organization not one charged with providing for homeland security?

And what of the manner in which this was conducted? I agree with attorney David Greenberg; this smells of blatant entrapment to me. I don’t think the Sheriff’s Department or the Police Department should have participated or cooperated in this investigation.

George Thompson

Durango