Cedar Rapids ITT dean caught in Internet sting

UPDATED: Terry M. Campie thought when he drove to Clinton on Friday he would meet a girl that was younger than 16 years old, the Clinton County Sheriff's Office said. Instead, he met a sheriff's deputy.

Clinton County Sheriff Rick Lincoln said Campie, 54, of Iowa City, arranged the meeting earlier Friday “for the purposes of sexual contact.” He was arrested has been charged with attempted enticement of a minor, which is an aggravated misdemeanor.

“It was an online chat with an individual he believed to be under the age of 16 who was actually a sheriff's deputy,” Lincoln said. Campie used the screenname zxray22 in a chat room, according to the Sheriff's Office.

Law enforcement in Clinton County has arrested and charged a man about once a month for the last year under the same circumstances. Men from as far away as Des Moines and Chicago have been arrested, Lincoln said.

The sheriff said it is not entrapment. The deputy impersonating a teenager doesn't initiate the contact, and doesn't bring up sex, he said.

Campie is a dean at ITT Technical Institute's Cedar Rapids campus, the sheriff's office said. Campie used to be president of EMS Detergent Services in North Liberty, a company that was profiled by The Gazette in 2007.

Here's a link to ITT's Cedar Rapids campus.

Below is the Clinton County Sheriff's Office press release and affidavit:

Terry Campie Affidavit