A federal jury has convicted a Greenville man, who is a registered sex offender, of attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
According to a news release, 29-year old Dustin Stone of Greenville was arrested in November of 2018, when he traveled to Paducah with the intent of having sex with a 13-year-old female he believed he was communicating. Stone was actually communicating with undercover detectives with the Paducah Police Department. Stone sent sexually explicit text messages to the investigators and further solicited the encounter through a series of phone calls with an undercover female detective.
Stone was previously convicted of Attempted Use of Electronic Means to Induce a Minor in a sex offense in Muhlenberg Circuit Court in 2014. He was ordered in that case to be placed on the sex offender registry for twenty years.
The jury found Stone guilty of Attempted Enticement and Commission of a Felony Involving a Minor by a Person Required to Register as a Sex Offender, with final sentencing scheduled for December 9.
Under federal law, Stone is facing a mandatory sentence of not less than twenty years imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system.