A Seymour man has been arrested on six felony charges for his involvement in soliciting teenagers for sex, police report.

Christopher Michael Hohnstreiter, 45, was arrested Friday on three Level 4 felony counts of child solicitation-related charges and three Level 5 counts of child solicitation.

During Hohnstreiter’s initial hearing held Monday in Jackson Circuit Court in Brownstown, his trial was set for 8:30 a.m. Jan. 29 by Judge Richard W. Poynter. Bond was set at $4,005.

The charges stem from an investigation by the Indiana State Police into incidents in which Hohnstreiter has been accused of soliciting sex from two girls younger than 16. The incidents were reported to the Jackson County Department of Child Services on April 30 by one of the girls, according to a probable cause affidavit filed Friday.

The investigation, led by Indiana State Police Detective Andrew Mitchell, alleges Hohnstreiter contacted the girls for sex as early as Sept. 19, 2016, and he continued to contact them through various messaging services through April of this year, according to court records.

Police said the contacts were made through Facebook Messenger, TextPlus and TextNow, applications that allow users to message and call each other without a cellular phone plan.

Hohnstreiter told the girls to delete the messages once they had read them on multiple occasions. He also offered one of the girls money and marijuana in exchange for sex, according to interviews with the girls.

As part of the investigation, police obtained search warrants through Jackson Superior Court I and Jackson Superior Court II for social media records, messaging service records, a cellphone, three tablets and drug paraphernalia. Those items were located in Hohnstreiter’s room at his mother’s residence, where he had been living for about three years.

Police have yet to recover a laptop Hohnstreiter allegedly used. He told police he destroyed it because it was broken.

Hohnstreiter denied the allegations during an interview with police, according to the probable cause affidavit.

He was booked into the Jackson County Jail in Brownstown at 11:21 a.m. Friday.

Hohnstreiter’s record includes multiple felony convictions for domestic battery, interfering with reporting a crime, resisting law enforcement, operating a vehicle while being an habitual offender, operating while intoxicated with a prior conviction within five years in Jackson County, according to court records.