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A Noblesville man arrested during a child solicitation sting last year received a six-year sentence Thursday.
Eric N. Johnson, 38, pled guilty and was sentenced to six years on a charge of child solicitation, a Level 4 felony, by Johnson County Superior Court 3 Douglas Cummins on Thursday. Three years of the sentence will be served in prison, followed by one year of home detention and two years of probation, according to a Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office news release.
He will also be required to register as a sex offender and participate in a sex offender evaluation and treatment, the news release says.
Johnson’s charges stemmed from an arrest as part of an undercover “sex sting” conducted by Johnson County law enforcement in November, prosecutors say. The operation was a collaboration between the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office and the Franklin Police Department. Men as young as 21 and as old as 64 were arrested in the operation, the largest operation of its kind to date with 20 arrests.
“The Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office is grateful for the collaborative efforts of law enforcement and which enhance our ability to protect the children in our county,” Deputy Prosecutor Brianna Acker said in the news release.
Johnson County Prosecutor Lance Hamner expressed gratitude to both law enforcement and the deputy prosecutors in the office’s sex crimes division for “their tireless efforts at identifying, arresting, and jailing child sex predators.”
“I hope the perverts are figuring out that if you even try to prey on kids in this county you’ll be spending years — years — in a steel cage,” Hamner said in the news release.
