Drew Dreschel is heading to jail.
The American Ninja Warrior alum—he received season 11 of the collection in 2019—has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for receiving youngster pornography and enticement to journey for illicit sexual conduct, U.S. Lawyer Philip R. Sellinger confirmed in a press launch.
In June 2023, based on the discharge, Dreschel pleaded responsible to at least one rely of receiving youngster pornography and one rely of knowingly persuading, inducing, attractive and coercing a minor to journey interstate to interact in sexual exercise.
The discharge included, citing case paperwork and statements made in court docket, particulars across the 35-year-old’s 2020 arrest, noting legislation enforcement brokers “searched considered one of Drechsel’s telephones and located pictures of kid sexual abuse, together with pictures and movies of the sufferer when the sufferer was 14 and 15 years outdated.”
In response to Sellinger, Dreschel admitted to assembly the sufferer in 2014 by the parkour neighborhood and to “texting the sufferer and discussing his plans to interact in sexual exercise with the sufferer.” The minor then traveled, based on the report, throughout state strains in July 2015 in order that “Drechsel may have sexual relations with the sufferer.”