Clifford Kaja, the Gladstone man caught in a cybersting in September 2022, has pled guilty to two crimes.

As part of a plea deal, Kaja pled guilty to one count of accosting a child for immoral purposes and one count of using a computer to commit a crime. Those charges require a max of four and seven years respectively. Count one is also considered a Tier 2 sex offender crime, the middle of three degrees of sexual offenses according to state law.

A misdemeanor charge of furnishing alcohol to a minor was dropped as part of the deal and no other charges could be brought forward after entering the plea on Tuesday, May 16.

According to testimony taken at the 11th Circuit Court motion day at the Alger County Courthouse, Kaja admitted to travelling to a Munising hotel on September 16, 2022 in order to meet for “an immoral act with a 15-year-old”.

Sentencing will be July 18th at 10 a.m. in theAlger County Courthouse.