CHANNELVIEW, Texas – A Channelview man, who authorities say is a registered sex offender and was recently released on parole from a Texas prison has been arrested again for the same exact crime he had been convicted for.
Christopher Joseph Lakner, 33, was arrested by the Harris County Pct. 1 Constable’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.
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Lakner was sentenced in 2021 in Harris County to five years in prison after pleading guilty to online solicitation of a minor in a case in which he was accused of asking a deputy – who was undercover posing as a teenager – to help him kidnap children so they could be sold as sex slaves. Lakner sent photos of himself naked and attempted to meet with her in person for sex. Lakner also told the undercover deputy he wanted to impregnate her to create children and raise them to also be sex slaves, court records state.
Pct. 1 says in a related case in Montgomery County, he was convicted of promotion of child pornography and sentenced to 10 years of probation for sending images to an undercover officer.
Lakner had recently been granted parole and was released from prison in November 2024.
On Wednesday, Pct. 1 says Lakner was arrested again, on a new charge for again seeking to have sex with an undercover deputy posing online as a 15-year-old girl and sending her lewd photos of himself.
“We are never going to stop doing all we can to stop sexual predators.” Pct.1 Constable Alan Rosen said. “We are not going to let you prey on anyone, especially children.”