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Registered sex offender sentenced for soliciting ‘girl’ on the internet just months after completing prison term for earlier crimes

An Ogden man has been ordered to spend 5 1/2 years in federal prison for trying to entice a minor to have sex — a crime he committed soon after completing a sentence in Utah state prison for earlier sex offenses.

Jason Wayne Jones, 38, also will be on five years of supervised release following his release from prison under the sentence imposed Wednesay by U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby.

Jones had pleaded guilty last July to enticement of a minor for illegal sexual activity for soliciting a 13-year-old girl — who actually was an undercover detective posing as a minor — over the internet.