PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette After being taken into custody Monday morning at his city apartment, Daniel Ade is brought to city police headquarters to be processed and arraigned.

Led to believe he was texting a 13-year-old girl, Daniel Ade requested that the two engage in various sexual acts, it was alleged in a Williamsport city police affidavit.

Investigators said that beginning in October, Ade, 57, and “the teen” exchanged a series of text messages which implied that sex was involved. Right from the start, Ade, of 353 W. Third St., Williamsport, was told in a text that he was conversing with a 13-year-old girl, police said. “That is not a problem,” he allegedly replied.

Two adults, who are part of a team that create “decoy accounts and pose as young girls,” confronted Ade at his apartment Monday morning about his alleged solicitation of children, the affidavit stated. They then called police.

The adults gave the officers a stack of papers which reportedly were copies of the text messages Ade allegedly exchanged with the decoy minor, police said.

“I immediately recognized (in the papers) what I believed to be Ade soliciting minors for sexual endeavors or pleasure,” an officer wrote in the court document.

While an officer was reading the submitted paperwork, Ade began making remarks indicating he was going to harm himself, police said.

Ade told the officers he “would be better off dead, and that he was not going to jail,” according to the affidavit.

“Ade removed his jacket, outstretched his arms, cracked his knuckles and balled his fists in preparation for a physical altercation,” an officer wrote in the document.

Told he was under arrest, Ade refused to be handcuffed and had to be taken to the ground during a scuffle, police said.

He was arraigned before District Judge Christian Frey on felony charges of criminal solicitation to commit statutory sexual assault, criminal solicitation to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, criminal solicitation to corrupt the morals of a minor, illegal use of a cellphone and one misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest. Frey denied Ade bail so he was automatically committed to the Lycoming County Prison.