NSW man charged with child grooming

A man from western NSW has been charged with child grooming after a police sting in which officers posed as a 13-year-old boy online.

The 25-year-old from Menindee began contacting police online in November last year and engaged in sexually explicit conversations with an officer he thought was the teenager.

He was arrested at his home on April 20, with police seizing a mobile phone, a computer and electronic storage devices.

The man has been charged with using a carriage service to groom persons under 16 and granted conditional bail to appear at Broken Hill Local Court on Tuesday.