The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports a Pottawattamie County man, 31-year old Andrew Steven Newport, was sentenced Wednesday in Council Bluffs to 10-years in prison for Coercion and Enticement of a Minor. Following his prison term, Newport will serve 10-years of supervised release.

In September 2018, Council Bluffs Police received a call from a concerned parent who had received messages through Facebook from Newport and thought Newport was communicating with her thirteen year old daughter. The mother gave the Facebook information to the Council Bluffs Police and an undercover officer continued to communicate with Newport. Newport asked who he believed to be the minor girl to meet him at the Council Bluffs Library and offered her $200 to have sex. Council Bluffs Police Officers met Newport at the arranged meeting place and arrested him. Newport had his phone, a pocket knife, airsoft gun with light mount, and a fraudulent FBI investigator card.

Newport admitted he went to the library to meet a 13 year old girl for sex. He plead guilty to the charge in March 2019. The case was investigated by the Council Bluffs Police Department. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.