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Washington man pleads guilty to child enticement

by KAYE THORNBRUGH
Staff Writer | December 18, 2024 1:00 AM

COEUR d’ALENE — A Washington man faces up to 15 years in prison after authorities said he sent explicit messages and made plans to meet someone he believed to be a teen girl but who was really an undercover police officer.

Andrew P. Hanson, 60, of Deer Meadows, Wash., pleaded guilty last week to enticing children through the use of the internet or other communication devices, a felony. 

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