Oklahoma state Senator Ralph Shortey, speaks during a Senate committee meeting in Oklahoma City on Feb. 22, 2017. Sue Ogrocki / AP

Later, they discovered an online conversation between Shortey and JM.

"Would you be interested in sexual stuff?" Shortey allegedly wrote.

"Yes," JM allegedly replied.

From there, the conversation as described in DA's charging papers veered off from logistics to graphic lewdness and included a "smiley face emoji."

Both Shortey and JM admitted to police that they met a year ago through a Craigslist "personal encounter ad," the papers state. And police also found an "open box of condoms" in a backpack.

When asked what he was doing at the motel with the teen, Shortey said they were "just hanging out." according to a Moore Police report.

This is not the first time Shortey made national news. Back in 2012, he proposed a bill

"There are companies that are using embryonic stem cells to research and basically cause a chemical reaction to determine whether or not something tastes good or not," he told

"As a pro-life advocate, it kind of disturbed me that we would use aborted embryos or aborted human fetuses to extract stem cells and use them for research to basically make things taste better."

The bill, which could have been lifted from the 1973 science fiction movie "Soylent Green," was referred to the Agriculture and Rural Development committee where it died, according to The Daily Oklahoman.

Shortey, who identifies himself as a member of the Rosebud Sioux Indian Tribe on his

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