{"id":467309,"date":"2026-09-18T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467309\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:00:09","slug":"fresno-man-convicted-of-trying-to-meet-decoy-who-he-thought-was-15-year-old-boy-for-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467309\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno man convicted of trying to meet decoy, who he thought was 15-year-old boy, for sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Fresno man was convicted after arranging to meet a person, he believed was a 15-year-old boy in Bakersfield, for sex during a Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office decoy operation back in 2023.<\/p>\n

The Kern County District Attorney\u2019s Office said on September 16, 2026, a Kern County jury convicted 40-year-old Jagjeet Singh of Fresno of two felonies: attempted contact with a minor for a sexual offense and meeting with a person believed to be a minor for a lewd purpose.<\/p>\n

According to the DA\u2019s Office, in September of 2023, the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office was engaged in an ongoing decoy operation to identify individuals who contact and meet with minors to engage in sexual acts.<\/p>\n

On September 9, 2023, Singh messaged one of the decoy profiles on a dating application involved in the operation, according to the DA\u2019s office. The decoy, an undercover Kern County Sherriff\u2019s Office Deputy, posed as a 15-year-old boy. Singh was informed repeatedly by the decoy that the decoy was 15 years old.<\/p>\n

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The Kern County District Attorney\u2019s Office said on September 16, 2026, a Kern County jury convicted 40-year-old Jagjeet Singh of Fresno of two felonies: attempted contact with a minor for a sexual offense and meeting with a person believed to be a minor for a lewd purpose. PHOTO: Kern County DA<\/p>\n

According to the DA\u2019s office, Singh told the decoy that he was a commercial truck driver that lived in Fresno and described in detail the sex acts that he was going to engage in with the 15-year-old decoy.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Singh drove to a gas station in Bakersfield, which had been agreed upon by both Singh and the decoy as the meeting place where they were going to engage in the aforementioned sex acts.<\/p>\n

After arriving, Singh was contacted and arrested by law enforcement.<\/p>\n

District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer commented by saying, \u201cPreventative law enforcement operations like these allow perpetrators to be identified before they have the opportunity to victimize a real child. In addition to a prison sentence, the conviction carries a mandatory lifetime sex offender registration requirement, subjecting Singh to continued monitoring and restrictions which are intended to protect the public and prevent further offenses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Singh\u2019s sentencing is scheduled for October 14, 2026, where he faces up to three years, eight months in prison and will be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Fresno man was convicted after arranging to meet a person, he believed was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-467309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467309","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=467309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}