Former Youth Soccer VP Gets 4 Months For Sexting 'Teen'

A Bolingbrook man was sentenced to four months in jail for sexting a police detective he believed was a 13-year-old soccer player.

Jason Lentz, 41, was also certified as a sex offender when he was sentenced Wednesday morning. He was taken from the courtroom to the Will County jail to serve his time.

Lentz was the vice president of the Bolingbrook Soccer Club when police said they learned he was sending sexually inappropriate messages to underage players in September 2014.

Less than two months later, the law raided Lentz’s Firethorn Street home and arrested him.

Between the report to police and Lentz’s arrest, Detective Rich Wistocki, an investigator with the Will County State’s Attorney’s High Technology Crimes Unit, posed as a 13-year-old girl. Lentz texted Wistocki’s “13-year-old female persona” and tried to convince “her” to have sex with him, according to a criminal indictment.

Lentz posted $25,000 bail for his release two days after he was arrested. As a condition of his bail, he was ordered to stay away from anyone younger than 18 — including his own children — and to have no contact with the Bolingbrook Raiders Traveling Soccer Club.

Lentz, who was employed as an information technology worker with Cadence Healthcare in Winfield at the time of his arrest, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of unlawful grooming in February. Charges of indecent solicitation of a child and solicitation to meet a child — allegedly at a Plainfield Arby’s without her parents’ permission and for a less than legal reason — were dismissed.