Illinois Man Arrested For Plans To Have Sex With Teen In Chattanooga Gets 10 Years

  • Tuesday, August 13, 2024

An Illinois man who was arrested last September after making plans to have sex with a 15-year-old male during a visit to Chattanooga has been sentenced to serve 10 years in federal prison.

Theodore Bello Traister, 41, of Bensenville, Il., was charged with aggravated statutory rape and five counts of solicitation of a minor.

State charges were dismissed in General Sessions Court on Monday due to the federal sentence.

Authorities earlier said Traister reached out to what he thought was a teen on a Facebook page and arranged to meet the youth in Chattanooga.

Traister was arrested at Papa John's on Broad Street. He had said he was going to bring pizza to the youth's house.

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