JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Michigan man has been sentenced to nearly 17 years in federal prison after trying to arrange sex with someone he believed was an 11-year-old girl in Jacksonville, authorities said.
William Isaak Sparks, 24, of Kalamazoo, pleaded guilty to attempting to meet an 11-year-old in Jacksonville for sex.
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The person was actually an undercover FBI agent posing as a parent offering up their child online.
Sparks was arrested in Michigan last year before he could travel to Jacksonville.
Investigators say he asked the undercover agent to buy him a bus ticket from Michigan to Florida.
According to the release, after his prison time, Sparks will be on supervised release for life and must register as a sex offender.
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