A 41-year-old Fort Walton Beach man was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison after being convicted of charges stemming from a sex sting where he offered to engage in sexual activity with a 12-year-old girl.
Timothy Carlos Coffey was convicted by a jury of using a computer to facilitate or solicit a parent, legal guardian or custodian to consent to the sexual conduct of a child, unlawful use of a two-way communication device to facilitate the commission of a felony, traveling to meet a minor to engage in sexual conduct with consent by a parent, legal guardian or custodian and attempted lewd or lascivious battery with a victim 12 to 16 years of age on Feb. 12.
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Judge Kelvin Wells also ordered Tuesday that Coffey was designated as a sexual offender and is required to register as such for the rest of his life.
Coffey answered an ad on Craigslist in which an undercover officer was posing as the mother of a 12-year-old looking for someone to engage in sexual activity with her daughter, according to a media release from the State Attorney’s Office.
Coffey offered to come to their home to have sex with the child. He then went to a location he believed to be near the home to meet the “mother,” where he was arrested by Walton County Sheriff’s Office deputies, the release said.
Coffey was dishonorably discharged from the Air Force after 19 years of service as a result of the acts, according to the release.
The sting was part of a November 2013 operation dubbed “Operation Turkey Hunt,” which caught a total of 10 men, five of them local.
The other four local men were sentenced previously.
Mohommed Alhamdy, Fort Walton Beach, was found guilty and sentenced to 38 months in prison.
Melvin Andrews, Fort Walton Beach, was found guilty and placed on probation for five years.
Nick Walker, Freeport, was found guilty and sentenced to 38 months in prison.
William Moodie, Sandestin, was found guilty and sentenced to 36 months in prison.
