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Date: 04-27-2021
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Case Number: 2:20-cr-20016-MMM-EIL
Judge: Michael M. Mihm
Court: United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois (Champaign county)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Urbana, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with enticing a minor.
Timothy Lyle Dean, 38, of the 200 block of Spencer Court, Bourbonnais, Ill., was charged with one count of enticement of a minor.
The government presented evidence at trial that Dean was identified when he arranged to meet an individual whom he believed to be a 14-year-old minor for sexual activity on the dating application Grindr.
Dean was arrested and charged as a result of an investigation by the FBI – Springfield Division, with the assistance of the Bradley Police Department, the Kankakee County Sheriff’s Office, and the Kankakee Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group. Assistant U.S. Attorney Elly M. Peirson and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Shannon O’Brien-Ranck of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office represent the government.
18:2422.F COERCION OR ENTICEMENT OF MINOR On or about 2/15/2020, in Kankakee County, the defendant did use the internet and a cellular telephone to attempt to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity in violation of 18 U.S.C. section 2422(b)
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Outcome: Dean was found guilty and faces statutory penalties of 10 years to life imprisonment.
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