Minneapolis, MN baker gets nine years in Internet sex sting
Dr. Kardasz: The following story describes a convicted killer who was caught during an undercover luring/enticement operation conducted by a law enforcement agency. If more law enforcement agencies devoted more undercover personnel to catching Internet sexual predators the world might just be a little safer.
Minneapolis, MN baker gets nine years in Internet sex sting
By David L. Brommerich, For the Winona Daily News, 11/14/07
A convicted murderer from Minneapolis has been sentenced to nine years in prison for trying to arrange sex with a 15-year-old girl in Buffalo County.
Gary R. Lohmeier, 53, who has felony convictions in Minnesota dating back to 1977, will also have to serve 8 years of supervised probation.
Circuit Judge James Duvall exceeded the 5 year sentence recommended by Buffalo County District Attorney Tom Clark. Clark said Lohmeier’s criminal history was a factor in his sentence.
Two other men convicted this year in similar cases in Buffalo County got sentences of 18 months or less.
Lohmeier, who was working as a baker before his arrest, pleaded no contest to a felony charge of attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child under the age of 16. A charge of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime was dismissed as part of a plea agreement.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested Lohmeier on April 24 near a convenience store in Alma, Wis., where he had arranged to meet with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl but was in fact an investigator who had posed as a juvenile in an online chat room.
Lohmeier has an extensive criminal history, including a conviction for second degree murder for a 1984 shooting outside a Minneapolis bar in which one person was killed and two wounded. While serving a 19-year sentence, he was convicted of a narcotics charge stemming from the bust of a drug ring that smuggled heroin and cocaine into the Stillwater prison.
Transcripts filed in the Buffalo County case showed that Lohmeier claimed he was 35. He sent sexually explicit photos over the Internet, according to the complaint.
Lohmeier was credited for 197 days served since his arrest.
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Minneapolis, MN baker gets nine years in Internet sex sting
By David L. Brommerich, For the Winona Daily News, 11/14/07
A convicted murderer from Minneapolis has been sentenced to nine years in prison for trying to arrange sex with a 15-year-old girl in Buffalo County.
Gary R. Lohmeier, 53, who has felony convictions in Minnesota dating back to 1977, will also have to serve 8 years of supervised probation.
Circuit Judge James Duvall exceeded the 5 year sentence recommended by Buffalo County District Attorney Tom Clark. Clark said Lohmeier’s criminal history was a factor in his sentence.
Two other men convicted this year in similar cases in Buffalo County got sentences of 18 months or less.
Lohmeier, who was working as a baker before his arrest, pleaded no contest to a felony charge of attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child under the age of 16. A charge of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime was dismissed as part of a plea agreement.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested Lohmeier on April 24 near a convenience store in Alma, Wis., where he had arranged to meet with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl but was in fact an investigator who had posed as a juvenile in an online chat room.
Lohmeier has an extensive criminal history, including a conviction for second degree murder for a 1984 shooting outside a Minneapolis bar in which one person was killed and two wounded. While serving a 19-year sentence, he was convicted of a narcotics charge stemming from the bust of a drug ring that smuggled heroin and cocaine into the Stillwater prison.
Transcripts filed in the Buffalo County case showed that Lohmeier claimed he was 35. He sent sexually explicit photos over the Internet, according to the complaint.
Lohmeier was credited for 197 days served since his arrest.
Retrieved November 14, 2007 from http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2007/11/14/news/03sexsting.txt