KINGSTON – A Shamokin man is facing charges in connection to an online child sex sting.
The Citizens Voice is reporting 52-year old Gary Kerstetter engaged in a graphic conversation on the internet with a person he thought was a 15-year old girl. It happened on January 21 and reports say he then attempted to meet her in person.
Police reports say the girl was actually a Kingston police detective.
Kerstetter faces felony counts of unlawful contact with a minor and criminal use of a communication facility. He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge David Barilla and sent to Luzerne County Correction Facility in lieu of $75,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for February 9.
