Minnesota State Senator Justin Eichorn was arrested on Monday after allegedly making an attempt to solicit a minor for intercourse.
Eichorn, a 40-year-old Republican from Grand Rapids, communicated with an undercover detective believing they have been a 17-year-old lady. He then organized to fulfill her in Bloomington — a south suburb of Minneapolis — the place he was arrested with out incident, police introduced Tuesday.
Eichorn is at the moment in custody however has not but been formally charged. Bloomington police stated felony fees of soliciting an individual beneath 18 to observe prostitution are pending from the Hennepin County Lawyer’s Workplace.
“As a 40-year-old man, if you come to the Orange Jumpsuit District looking to have sex with someone’s child, you can expect that we are going to lock you up,” Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges stated in an announcement, including the investigation is ongoing.
In a brief assertion launched Tuesday afternoon, Minnesota Republicans referred to as for Eichorn to resign from his place within the state Senate.
“We are shocked by these reports and this alleged conduct demands an immediate resignation. Justin has a difficult road ahead and he needs to focus on his family,” the assertion stated.
Eichorn is married with 4 kids, in response to his Minnesota State Senate bio.
Eichorn was first elected to the Senate in 2016 and is at the moment in his third time period. He was just lately one of many authors of a Minnesota invoice that might categorize so-called “Trump derangement syndrome” as a psychological sickness that may very well be “serious enough to require prompt intervention.”
In response to the authors of the invoice, the syndrome is outlined as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump,” and could also be expressed by hostility or aggression towards the president or his supporters.
The invoice has confronted fierce backlash from Democrats, who’ve stated it trivializes psychological well being care and exhibits “a dangerous level of loyalty to an authoritarian president.”
