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Scott Paul Locastro, of West Friendship, has been ordered to serve two years behind bars after pleading guilty to one count of sexual solicitation of a minor dating back to an investigation earlier this year.
According to the Frederick County State's Attorney's Office, on Wednesday, Jan. 3, a deputy from the Frederick County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation posing as a 13-year-old girl, who was approached by Locastro with "sexualized conversation," including soliciting the "girl" for sexual acts on multiple occasions.
Locastro also asked the "minor" to meet at various spots for illicit activities, including locations at the park, a hotel, and his truck.
Prosecutors say that Locastro became the subject of an intensive investigation that found him taking his Chevy Cruze from Howard County to Frederick, where he was met not by a teen girl, but instead by police investigators, and he was arrested without incident, admitting to communicating with multiple minors and exchanging explicit, nude images with them.
Locastro was sentenced to 10 years in prison with all but two years suspended, followed by two years of probation when he is released.
"Probation will include five years of COMET-supervised probation, a psycho-sexual evaluation and sex-offender treatment," officials said. "(Locastro) must comply with specialized sexual offender supervision - offense specific treatment, medication, polygraph testing, computer monitoring, electronic tracking and curfew/geographic restriction."
As part of his guilty plea, Locastro must also register as a Tier-2 sex offender and is barred from having unsupervised contact with any minor children.
“This arrest is another win for the juveniles who are preyed upon by sexual predators like Locastro,” Sgt. Rob Deckhut, FCSO Criminal Investigations Section commander said when Locastro was arrested. “Our goal is to take as many of these predators off the streets of Frederick County and to protect our youth to the fullest extent possible.”
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