Rolling Meadows man gets 11 years for trying to lure minor

A Rolling Meadows man was sentenced to 11 years in prison recently for trying to solicit what he thought was a 13-year-old girl for sex.

Donald Zawada of 2803 Flicker Lane was sentenced in the U.S. District Court of Northern Indiana by Chief Judge Robert L. Miller Jr., according to an electronic court document. Zawada was tried and found guilty June 13 of both attempting to entice a minor for sex and transmitting obscene material to a minor.

Zawada was sentenced Friday to 10 years on the second charge, but that will run concurrently with his first sentence.

Zawada was arrested in August 2006 after corresponding with a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl but who was, in reality, a police officer.