Newspaper Reporter In Court On Sex Crimes 8/18/05
By: Import User
Updated: January 25, 2007
A long-time area newspaper reporter heads to court on attempted child sex charges.
48 year-old Steve Sembrat of Wilkes-Barre appeared in a Philadelphia area magistrate`s court today.
Sembrat waived his right to a preliminary hearing. Police arrested the veteran reporter on July 31, when they say he was preparing to meet and have sex with who he believed to be a 13 year-old girl he met on the internet She turned out to be an undercover agent.
Sembrat worked for years as a reporter for the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre before the paper fired him following his arrest.
He posted bail on August 10th.
Sembrat next faces a court arraignment October 6th.
