An Albert Lea high-risk predatory offender who allegedly exchanged sexual text and video messages with a 15-year-old girl and threatened to send her images to other people over the internet entered a provisional not guilty plea Thursday in Freeborn County District Court.

Travis Kyle Mayer, 30, is charged with one count of engaging in electronic communication relating or describing sexual conduct with a child and one count of distributing via electronic communication material that relates to or describes sexual conduct with a child.

Mayer is classified as a Level 3 offender, an offender with the highest likelihood of reoffending.

A pre-plea investigation report was filed Thursday. An omnibus hearing is scheduled for Oct. 31.

 

See what happened last night in the PM report here.