WILKES-BARRE — A man from Mississippi who drove several days to meet who he believed was a 14-year-old girl for sex pled guilty to a solicitation charge and a firearm offense in Luzerne County Court.
Tyler Anthony Quintana, 31, address listed as homeless, was communicating on a social media app with a cooperating witness with the online communications being sexual in nature, according to court records.
The cooperating witness contacted Kingston police when Quintana showed up at a pre-determined location on Dec. 8, 2023, court records say.
Court records say a loaded 9mm handgun was found inside Quintana’s Jeep along with a bag of methamphetamine. The firearm had an altered serial number.
Quintana pled guilty to criminal solicitation to commit statutory sexual assault and possessing a firearm with an altered serial number before Judge Michael T. Vough.
Quintana remains jailed without bail and is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 20.
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