A Honolulu man has been arrested and charged with using the Internet to try to arrange a sexual encounter with a minor, Michigan authorities announced Monday.

Jason Scott Neu, 52, of Honolulu, was being held here pending a hearing on a request to extradite him to Michigan.

Neu is charged under Michigan law with a single count of child sexually abusive activity, and one count of using a computer to commit a crime.

If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison on each count.

Neu has one prior criminal conviction in Hawai'i for misdemeanor theft in August 2002, according to the Hawai'i Criminal Justice Data Center.

"No matter where a predator is, my office will continue to aggressively pursue these predators who seek to harm Michigan's children," said Mike Cox, Michigan attorney general. "I want to thank the Hawai'i Attorney General's Office and law enforcement for assisting my office in this arrest."

Christopher D. Young, deputy attorney general in charge of the Hawai'i Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, was away Monday and unavailable for comment.

Michigan authorities said Neu allegedly was chatting online with a Michigan attorney general's office investigator posing as a 14-year-old boy.

Neu sent an "e-ticket" to the boy for a flight from Detroit to Honolulu "for the purpose of having sex with the minor," Michigan authorities said.

He was arrested Monday morning at Honolulu International Airport, where he allegedly went to meet the minor who received the ticket, authorities said.

Honolulu police, assisted by state sheriffs executing an extradition warrant, arrested Neu at the airport after he arrived to pick up the boy, police said.

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