{"id":36565,"date":"2025-03-20T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/minnesota-republican-faces-federal-felony-charges-for-soliciting-a-minor\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:19:15","slug":"minnesota-republican-faces-federal-felony-charges-for-soliciting-a-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/minnesota-republican-faces-federal-felony-charges-for-soliciting-a-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Republican faces federal felony charges for soliciting a minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State senator Justin Eichorn, 40, arrested after allegedly trying to meet with 17-year-old girl found through sex ad<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minnesota\">Minnesota<\/a> state lawmaker was charged with a felony in federal court for attempted coercion and enticement of a minor after responding to online sex ads and trying to arrange a meetup with a 17-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican senator Justin Eichorn, 40, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/18\/minnesota-justin-eichorn-arrested-soliciting-minor\">arrested<\/a> on Tuesday. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/d9\/2025-03\/25-mj-142_eichorn_complaint_packet.pdf\">charges<\/a> were filed on Wednesday and include details about Eichorn\u2019s alleged conduct. A similar state charge filed on Wednesday was dropped in favor of the federal charge.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/20\/justin-eichorn-minnesota-republican-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State senator Justin Eichorn, 40, arrested after allegedly trying to meet with 17-year-old girl found through sex ad A Minnesota state lawmaker was charged with a felony in federal court for attempted coercion and enticement of a minor after responding to online sex ads and trying to arrange a meetup with a 17-year-old. The Republican &#8230; <a title=\"Minnesota Republican faces federal felony charges for soliciting a minor\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/minnesota-republican-faces-federal-felony-charges-for-soliciting-a-minor\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Minnesota Republican faces federal felony charges for soliciting a minor\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}