Alabama police said Monday five adult men were arrested after an undercover police operation allegedly caught the men texting and speaking by phone with a person they believed were children attempting to engage in sex acts.

All five men were being held on $1 million bond, police said.

Albertville police announced the undercover operation in conjunction with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office and the Marshall County District Attorney’s Office along with Covenant Rescue Group and the U.S. Homelands Security Investigations division.

Arrested were:

Roger Brian Ayers (54) of Guntersville, AL
2 counts of Traveling to meet A Child for an Unlawful Sex Act
2 counts of Electronic Solicitation of a Child
$1,000,000.00 Bond

Ricardo Isaias Carrillo Becerra (36) of Fort Payne, AL
1 count of Traveling to meet A Child for an Unlawful Sex Act
1 count of Electronic Solicitation of a Child
$1,000,000.00 Bond

Juan Eduardo Paredes Rios (26) of Attalla, AL
2 counts of Traveling to meet A Child for an Unlawful Sex Act
2 counts of Electronic Solicitation of a Child
$1,000,000.00 Bond

Mario Antonio Rocha Placensia (40) of Fyffe, AL
1 count of Traveling to meet A Child for an Unlawful Sex Act
1 count of Electronic Solicitation of a Child
$1,000,000.00 Bond

Gerardo Orellana (44) of Buford, GA
1 count of Traveling to meet A Child for an Unlawful Sex Act
1 count of Electronic Solicitation of a Child
$1,000,000.00 Bond

Albertville police said the five men “were in communication with what they believed were children via text and phone calls in order to engage in unlawful sex acts.”