Woodbury trafficking sting: MN man wanted girl to have sex with his dog, police say

Nick Ferraro, Pioneer Press
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A Sauk Centre, Minn., man met up with a police decoy posing as a 17-year-old girl in Woodbury so he could pay her to have sex with his 240-pound English mastiff dog named “Lincoln,” charges say.

Lee Adam Terro, 48, set up a meeting with the undercover officer after responding to an online advertisement by the East Metro Sex Trafficking Task Force, according to charges filed Tuesday in Washington County District Court. Terro was arrested Sunday when he arrived at a Woodbury gas station to meet the decoy.

According to the criminal complaint:

Terro initiated a text conversation with the decoy on Sept. 20, saying he wanted the girl to have sexual intercourse with his dog while he watched and masturbated. Twice the decoy told Terro she was 17 years old, which he acknowledged.

Terro agreed to pay the decoy $350 to watch and an extra $50 to film the sexual encounter. Over the course of several days, Terro “vividly described” in texts “the process of how his dog would have sexual intercourse,” the complaint states. He said it would last anywhere between a half-hour and an hour.

Terro sent the decoy several links to bestiality websites that showed dogs having sex with people. He said he would bring the decoy flavored vodka.

On Sunday, officers were in Sauk Centre when Terro left his home for the meet-up. They followed him for 120 miles until he got to the gas station.

In his car, officers found Lincoln, along with $400 and a bottle of flavored vodka. Officers seized Terro’s cell phone and recovered the text message string between him and the decoy.

In an interview with police, Terro admitted to searching for a commercial sex ad, communicating with someone who he believed was a 17-year-old girl and arranging the meeting, charges state. He said that once he arrived at the gas station, he planned to cancel the meeting.

Terro has been charged with one count each of felony solicitation of someone under 18 for prostitution, gross misdemeanor attempted bestiality and misdemeanor cruelty-mistreatment of animals.

Terro made a first court appearance on the charges Tuesday before Judge Juanita Freeman. He was being held at the Washington County jail on $25,000 bail without conditions or $8,000 with conditions, which include no use of chat rooms, adult websites or dating websites and no contact with any animal.

Court records do not list an attorney for Terro, whose next court hearing is scheduled for Oct. 27.

Minnesota court records show Terro was convicted of burglary and theft in 1992, furnishing alcohol to a minor in 1995, receiving stolen property in 1996, fifth-degree domestic assault in 2006 and theft in 2007.

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