{"id":193249,"date":"2026-04-11T10:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193249\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:07:49","slug":"news-12-new-jersey-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193249\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Sussex County man was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempting to sexually assault someone he believed was a minor, the New Jersey Attorney General&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Larry M. Noel, 49, of Stanhope, was sentenced March 27 in Superior Court in Bergen County. He is also subject to lifetime parole supervision and was ordered to register as a sex offender under Megan\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to authorities, Noel contacted an undercover officer on April 11, 2019, on social media while the officer was posing as a 14-year-old. Prosecutors said Noel identified himself as a 29-year-old man, asked to meet the \u201cchild,\u201d and indicated he wanted to perform sexual acts.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities said Noel arranged to meet the supposed child at a location in Bergen County, where he was arrested upon arrival.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The investigation was part of \u201cOperation Home Alone,\u201d conducted by the New Jersey Regional Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, a multi-agency partnership.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A jury convicted Noel on Nov. 12, 2025 of luring, attempted sexual assault, and attempted endangering the welfare of a child by impairing or debauching the morals of a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sussex County man was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempting to sexually assault someone he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-193249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}