Officer sentenced for seeking sex with minor

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Judge Reggie Walton of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sentenced a Naval chief petty officer to more than eight years in prison Friday for trying to meet a 13-year-old Washington girl for sex.

Rodger Arntt Jr., of Seattle, received a 97-month prison sentence. A judge convicted him of seeking to have sex with an undercover police officer posing as a minor and traveling to have sex with a minor last September.

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