Washington Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Using Internet to Entice Minor 45-Year-Old Man Makes Arrangements to Meet 14-Year-Old Girl At Sunset Max Transit Station After Chatroom Conversations

Portland, Ore.—Karin Immergut, the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, announced this afternoon that Gregory Charles Dolle, 45, of rural King County, Washington, was sentenced in federal court by the Honorable Garr M. King to 120 months in prison following a plea of guilty to a single count of using the internet to coerce and entice a minor.

Dolle entered a plea of guilty on December 8, 2008, to charges that he knowingly used the Internet, as a means to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. A Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), while working in an undercover capacity, logged onto a Yahoo! website posing as a 14-year-old girl from Portland, Oregon. While in a Yahoo! Chatroom, the agent was contacted by an individual later identified as the defendant, who was living in Granite Falls, Washington. Chat conversations quickly developed a sexualized nature - they arranged to meet in person and then go to a motel.

On April 15, 2007, Dolle arrived at the Sunset Max Transit station for the meeting and was taken into custody. Dolle reported that this all started for him when he began watching the television show "To Catch a Predator" and decided to go online because he wanted to see if they were baiting or entrapping the predators and that it was "just a game to him." He did not believe he had done anything wrong, and stated if a girl had shown up he would have called 911 to tell them about the chat and take her home to remedy the situation.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory R. Nyhus.