A Bedford County-based task force formed to track online sexual predators will use $750,000 in state funds to double its investigators.

The Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force will increase its investigators to six.

Founder and Bedford County Sheriff Mike Brown also wants to increase the number of affiliate agencies from 58 to 70 by year end and create a prosecutor's position.

The money is part of $1.5 million in state funding for Virginia's two Internet task forces under the so-called "Alicia's Law."

Now 19 years old, Alicia Kozakiewicz left her Pennsylvania home at age 13 to meet a 38-year-old Herndon man whom she encountered online.

Scott Tyree is serving 19 years for raping Kozakiewicz for days before authorities found her.