Salt Lake man convicted of attempting to entice minor faces new federal charges

SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake man convicted of attempting to entice a minor has now been charged with possessing sexually explicit images of a child.

Brennan Christopher Bennett, 41, was initially indicted in November after agents located firearms and ammunition during a search warrant. Because Bennett was convicted in 2021 of two counts of attempted enticement of a minor, he is restricted from possessing firearms. In that case, Bennett was arrested after arranging to meet an undercover officer, whom he thought was a 13-year-old girl.

Agents from the FBI and the Child Exploitation and Human Task Force served a search warrant on Bennett’s apartment on Oct. 28, 2025…

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