The State Attorney, Seventh Judicial Circuit, said on Thur., Jun. 22, that a sixty-year-old St. Johns County man had been found guilty of sex charges. He now faces a life sentence.
At the conclusion of a one-day trial on Wed., Jun. 21, a St. Johns County jury found the defendant, Janos Maier, guilty as charged of five felonies. These included human trafficking and traveling to meet a minor. The human trafficking charge carries a mandatory life sentence.
A special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigations, posing as a 14-year-old girl, met the defendant on an internet site. The two proceeded to carry on a conversation through text messaging.
During the conversation, the agent repeatedly told the then 61-year-old Mairer that she was only 14. Maier insisted he wanted to pick her up and “make love” to her. Maier drove to a meet-up location and was arrested by law enforcement agents from St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.
Mair was also convicted of attempted lewd and lascivious battery, unlawful use of a two-way device and soliciting a person believed to be a child for unlawful sexual conduct using computer services or devices.