Former coach gets 10 years for trying to live out Craigslist fantasy with teen

A Bucks County man who once coached football at a middle school and camp in Montgomery County was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for propositioning a person online whom he thought was 14-year-old girl.

Michael J. Barndt, 40, of Sellersville, drove to a Delaware mall last year only to find the girl was an undercover federal agent. The agent had responded to Barndt's ad on Craigslist expressing his desire to fulfill a sexual fantasy with a teenager. After he was arrested, agents found thousands of images of teenage girls, some of them nude, on his phone.

Barndt must register as a sex offender and serve 5 years of supervised release after he gets out of prison. Until 2012, he coached football at Springfield Township Middle School in Montgomery County. He also recently coached the sport at the Blue Bell Camp in Blue Bell and worked as a chef at the Lakeside School in Horsham in 2009.

His case was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security.