Jun 15, 2018 1 min read

A New York man who police said drove to North Strabane Township to have sex with someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy entered a guilty plea Thursday in federal court.

Andrew M. Dubois, 32, of Jamestown, N.Y., entered a guilty plea to a single count of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct before U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon, who set sentencing for Oct. 4 at the federal courthouse in Pittsburgh.

A North Strabane officer was posing as a Canonsburg-area adolescent to monitor internet chat rooms in early December when a user later identified as Dubois contacted him. Dubois allegedly went on to text the “teenage boy” pictures of his face and of himself shirtless, plus sexually graphic messages.

Dubois was arrested Dec. 7 at a parking lot off Racetrack Road, where he’d allegedly arranged to meet the fictional boy for sex. Township police initially filed charges but withdrew their case when Dubois was indicted in federal court.