An inmate in the Floyd County Jail, John Wesley Fain, 41 of Cedartown, is now facing new charges after investigators said he had sexual conversations with a minor online.

Reports stated that Fain sent the minor messages via Snapchat between May 1 and May 9 of this year. Police added that Fain allegedly asked the child how much she would charge him to perform a sex act on her.

Police went on to say that Fain knew the person he was talking to was a minor because he had been informed of it by the victim’s mother.

Fain is now charged with obscene internet contact with a child and solicitation of sodomy.

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John Wesley Fain, 41 of Cedartown, was arrested this week in Rome after reports said he stole a gun from a home on Chateau Drive.

Reports stated that Fain stole a 9mm Taurus handgun from the home late last year.

Fain is charged with felony theft by taking.