ALBANY, New York - A 55-year-old Chicopee man was arrested Friday in New York on charges that he traveled across state lines to have sex with a minor, according to the FBI.
The Albany branch of the FBI filed a criminal complaint against Joseph A. Defilippi, charging that he had knowingly agreed to meet with a minor for the purpose of sex.
The minor in this case turned out to be an undercover FBI investigator posing online as a 13-year-old boy named Dylan. The complaint charges that between Feb. 28 and Aug. 10, Defilippi exchanged several emails with Dylan, including several in which he expressed interest in having sex with him.
According to the FBI affidavit, the undercover agent first encountered Defilippi responding to a personal ad that Defilippi had posted on Craigslist. It was titled "older man seeks younger M4M (Western Mass.)"
Defilippe was arrested Friday at a park in Menands, New York, a village just north of Albany, where they had agreed to meet for sex.
At his arraignment Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel J. Stewart in Albany, Defilippi denied the charges. He was ordered held without the right to bail pending further hearings.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison.