Kentucky man sentenced to decade in federal prison for attempted online enticement

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — An Owensboro, Kentucky, man was sentenced Jan. 27 to 10 years in federal prison for attempted online enticement of a minor and attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor following a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Bowling Green investigation.

Corey James Jarboe, 30, of Owensboro, Kentucky, was also ordered to 10 years of supervised release upon competition of his sentence.

According to court documents, Jarboe used the internet to communicate with an undercover law enforcement officer who he believed to be a 14-year-old female, and, during those conversations, he knowingly attempted to entice the minor to engage in criminal sexual activity by making plans to meet in person for sexual contact.

There is no parole in the federal system.

U.S. Attorney Michael A. Bennett of the Western District of Kentucky, Special Agent in Charge Rana Saoud of HSI Nashville, and Commissioner Phillip Burnett, Jr. of the Kentucky State Police made the announcement.

The case was investigated by HSI Bowling Green and the Kentucky State Police. Assistant U.S. Attorney R. Nicholas Rabold, of the U.S. Attorney’s Bowling Green Branch Office, prosecuted the case.

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