Edmond Resident Sentenced For Attempted Coercion And Enticement

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Lee Edward Redman, age 52, of Edmond, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 120 months in prison for one count of Attempted Coercion and Enticement.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On November 7, 2024, Redman pleaded guilty to attempting to use the internet to entice an individual who he believed to be under the age of 16 to engage in sexual activity.  According to investigators, between October 21 and October 24 of 2022, Redman initiated contact with an account appearing to belong to a young female.  That account was actually operated as part of an undercover operation conducted by Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office Investigators.  After a conversation in which Redman learned that his intended target was 15 years of age, Redman arranged to meet the account holder for sexual intercourse.  On October 24, 2022, deputies arrested Redman in the parking lot of a Muskogee mall where he had arranged to meet the 15 year old intended victim.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing.  Redman will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Morgan A. Muzljakovich represented the United States.