(AP) -- An Oakland County minister has been ordered held in jail following a hearing on solicitation of a minor charges in connection with an online sex sting. The Oakland Press in Pontiac reports a federal judge in Detroit made the ruling Tuesday during William Bendert's hearing.
The 51-year-old is pastor at King of Kings Lutheran Church in Lake Orion, about 30 miles northwest of Detroit. The FBI says Bendert's arrest followed online contact with agents in Ohio and Michigan who posed as mothers making their underage daughters available for men. He was arrested Friday at a motel north of Detroit where a meeting with an 11-year-old girl was to take place.
Defense lawyer David Burgess declines comment. A pretrial hearing is scheduled Oct. 6.
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