DAUPHIN COUNTY - A 32-year-old Wilkes-Barre man will face trial in Dauphin County court on charges he allegedly arranged to have sex with two young girls he met on the Internet.

John Levandowski, North Pennsylvania Avenue, was arrested Jan. 17 by agents with the state attorney general's office when he arrived at a hotel on Nationwide Drive in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County.

Levandowski allegedly responded Jan. 14 to an Internet advertisement designed to attract the attention of child sexual predators. The advertisements were posted by the AG's office in January as part of a child sex sting investigation on the Internet.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, the agent replied to Levandowski giving fictitious information he was the father of two girls, 9 and 12, and a 7-year-old boy.

Levandowski allegedly replied again on Jan. 14 saying, "received a post from the family group on Yahoo. I do understand the lifestyle and am interested."

Another e-mail sent by Levandowski on Jan. 15 allegedly stated, "I guess what I am looking for is to take part in some of your family activities," according to the affidavit.
Levandowski and the agent continued to exchange e-mails on Jan. 15. In one of those e-mails, Levandowski allegedly indicated he wished to engage in sexual activity with the 9- and 12-year-old girls.

More e-mails were exchanged in which Levandowski allegedly agreed to meet the father and girls at the hotel on Jan. 17, including what he believed was the single mother of the girls.

When Levandowski arrived at the hotel, an undercover female agent, posing as the single mother, met him in the parking lot.

After he allegedly repeated his desires to have sex with the girls, officers from the Susquehanna Township Police Department and AG's office took him in to custody.
According to the affidavit, Levandowski allegedly confessed to arranging to have sex with the girls.

Authorities said the girls were fictitious and no children were involved in the sting operation.
Levandowski was the 32nd person arrested since March 2001 when the AG's Bureau of Criminal Investigations initiated the child sex sting investigation on the Internet.

Levandowski was charged with two counts each of criminal solicitation of rape, criminal solicitation of statutory sexual assault, criminal solicitation of involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, criminal solicitation of indecent assault, criminal solicitation of indecent exposure and criminal solicitation of corruption of minors, and one count of criminal use of communication facility.

Levandowski, who has been free on bail since his arrest, waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Monday before District Justice Raymond F. Shugars in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County.

He was represented by Attorney Jerry J. Russo.
Dauphin County Assistant District Attorney Deborah Curcillo is prosecuting.

Levandowski is a former high school and college basketball referee.