{"id":173917,"date":"2026-02-11T20:21:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173917\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:21:31","slug":"sacramento-man-caught-in-child-enticement-sting-sentenced-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173917\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento man caught in child enticement sting sentenced | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 A Sacramento County man received a 10-year prison sentence for attempted coercion and enticement of a child, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2024, 63-year-old Mark Sigl of Antelope was talking with someone he believed was the father of a 10-year-old girl. However, the person was an undercover officer. Sigl expressed his intention to perform sex acts on the child and planned a meeting at a designated location.<\/p>\n<p>When Sigl arrived, law enforcement arrested him, discovering several sex items in his vehicle. Sigl pleaded guilty on July 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacsheriff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> and the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Taskforce investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Zulkar Khan prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>This case is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/psc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Project Safe Childhood<\/a>, a Department of Justice initiative launched in May 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 A Sacramento County man received a 10-year prison sentence for attempted coercion and enticement of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3671,723,100,121,123,122,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-173917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-covering-california","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-headlines","13":"tag-sacramento-news","14":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}