A man from Michigan will go to prison for a year after trying to arrange sex with a 15-year-old in Minocqua. Oneida County Judge Michael Bloom sentenced 26-year-old Benjamin Lahti Friday. As part of a plea agreement, Lahti must register as a sex offender, undergo treatment, and provide a DNA sample to the court. Charges of using a computer to facilitate a sex crime and possession of drug paraphernalia were dismissed but read into the sentence.
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Investigators say Lahti posted an online advertisement seeking a sexual encounter, and then drove from his Ironwood, Michigan home to Minocqua to meet the child. That’s when he found out the alleged child was really an undercover officer.
The investigation was conducted by the Door County Sheriff’s Department, Minocqua Police Department, Oneida and Price County Sheriff’s Departments and the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation.
