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Tennessee Man Sentenced to 96 Months for Child Sex Crimes

Jeffrey Scott Evans, 51, has been sentenced to 96 months in federal prison for traveling from Tennessee to Bloomington, Minnesota, in an attempt to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a 13-year-old female.

According to court documents, Evans used the screen name ‘taboolooking’ on a social media site called ‘chathour.com’ to initiate a conversation with another user he believed to be a 13-year-old girl. However, this user was actually an undercover federal agent.

Evans quickly turned the conversation sexual in nature, discussing traveling from Tennessee to Minnesota to meet and have sex with the child. Between June 12, 2015, and June 22, 2015, Evans sent dozens of email messages and text messages describing the sexual acts he wanted to engage in with the girl. He also sent sexually explicit photos of himself.

Evans was arrested on June 22, 2015, shortly after he arrived at the Bloomington hotel at which he had planned to engage in illicit sexual relations with the 13-year-old female. Law enforcement found sex toys and lingerie on the bed, as well as a camera and illegal drugs, inside Evans’ hotel room. A loaded .38 caliber pistol was also found in his vehicle.

This case was the result of an investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations with the assistance of the Bloomington Police Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin S. Ueland.

Evans pleaded guilty on August 11, 2015, and was sentenced on January 22, 2016, before Judge Susan R. Nelson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn. He will serve 15 years of supervised release after his prison sentence.

Acting Special Agent in Charge William Lowder of HSI St. Paul emphasized the importance of targeting predators through the efforts of special agents. ‘The sexual exploitation of children by predators has reached epidemic proportions nationally and internationally,’ Lowder said. ‘Targeting these predators has been a high priority for more than a decade.’