The 48-year old, who played a grandfather on the Disney Channel series “Andi Mack,” had used a dating app to meet a minor and sent explicit photos, authorities said. “He arranged to meet up with what he thought was a 13-year old,” Detective Greg Wilking, a spokesman for the Salt Lake City Police Department, said Saturday. Westmoreland was being held at the Salt Lake County Jail on $30,000 bond as of Saturday afternoon, according to jail records. He was fired from the network Friday, Disney Channel spokeswoman Patti McTeague said in a statement. That also happens with her friends; the show became the first Disney Channel program to feature a gay character coming out, Variety reported.

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2018 21:45 UTC