Spangenberg
HANOVER TWP. — A registered sex offender from Pittston was arrested when he allegedly solicited a person he believed was a child for sex.
Tyler Zachary Spangenberg, 26, of Johnson Street, responded to a website advertisement and initiated an online conversation where he offered to pay cash for a sex act last Friday, according to court records.
Spangenberg believed he was communicating with a girl and solicited pictures from the child, court records say.
According to court records, online communications took place on the social media app Snapchat.
Spangenberg was arraigned by District Judge Rick Cronauer of Wilkes-Barre on two counts of criminal solicitation, and one count each of failure to register as a sex offender with the Pennsylvania State Police and criminal use of a communication facility.
Court records say Spangenberg failed to disclose he had a Snapchat account as a registered sex offender.
Spangenberg was sentenced in Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in January 2023 to 10-24 months at the county correctional facility on charges he posted videos of his sexual acts, which he secretly recorded with ex-girlfriends, to pornography websites. As part of his 2023 sentence, Spangenberg is subject to 15 years of registration as a sex offender under the state’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
