PRESTON, Minn. – A Spring Valley man, Benjamin Chad Leslie, age 40, pleaded guilty to carnal chats with someone underage and arranging a rendezvous. Judge Jeremy Clinefelter set sentencing for late July. The arrestm in September, was an online police sting in which a sheriff’s investigator posed as a 14-year-old girl. The upshot of the dialogue was supposed to be a rendezvous at a Rochester hotel 37 miles away. The arrest was at the hotel parking lot. When told the “girl” was 14, Leslie said “doesn’t bother me,” according to the criminal complaint.
