A Fargo man arrested during an undercover police sting was sentenced in Fargo's federal court Tuesday for using the Internet to lure a minor for sex.
Cory Michael Keller, 31, 5032 Amber Valley Parkway, will serve five months in prison and another five months in a halfway house, U.S. District Judge Rodney Webb ruled.
The judge also ordered Keller to complete two years of supervision once released from custody and to register as a sex offender.
"I'm sorry that I did what I did," Keller said during his sentencing hearing Tuesday.
On Feb. 8, 2003, Keller logged onto the Internet and entered a chat room where he thought he had struck up a conversation with a 16-year-old West Fargo girl, court records say.
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But Keller was actually corresponding with Al Schmidt, a West Fargo police officer who built Internet luring cases against Keller and 22 other area men last year.
Keller made sexually suggestive comments during the computer chat and agreed to meet "Sarah" later that day in a West Fargo grocery store parking lot.
West Fargo police arrested Keller in the parking lot.
He pleaded guilty to Internet luring on March 26.
