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SALT LAKE CITY — A California man who drove to Utah last year to have sex with a child has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups sentenced Cameron Lawson Call to serve 46 months in prison. Waddoups also ordered Call, 35, to remain on probation for the rest of his life once he is released from prison.
Call was arrested at gunpoint during a July 21 traffic stop west of Vernal. The Loomis, California, man had driven nearly 800 miles to meet a 12-year-old girl for sex at a hotel, according to state court records.
The girl was actually a Vernal police detective working undercover with the Utah Crimes Against Children Task Force. Call contacted the detective in April under the apparent belief that he was communicating with a child, charging documents state.
Call "went into explicit detail about the various things that he wished to do" and said he was coming to Vernal to engage in sex with the girl, investigators said. He also sent a sexually explicit picture of himself without being asked to do so, according to the undercover officer.
In a plea deal with federal prosecutors, Call pleaded guilty in November to one count of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. The charge carries a maximum penalty of up to 30 years in federal prison.
