Cop Who Brought Pie And Condoms To Meet With Girl, 13, Convicted

LAGUNA BEACH, CA — Though his original conviction was overturned on appeal, a retired California Highway Patrol lieutenant who was caught in a sex-sting operation will now have to register as a sex offender, a jury has said.

Perverted Justice set up the original sting that drew Deck to drive an hour with a key-lime pie, camera and condoms to a meeting in a Laguna Beach park. There, instead of the girl he thought he was meeting, he found an undercover agent posing as a 13-year-old, a prosecutor told a jury Tuesday.

Stephen Robert Deck has already served one year in jail, and five years of probation for the 2009 crime, and cannot be jailed a second time.

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