A North Idaho College administrator accused of offering scholarship money to students in exchange for sex told police he had made the solicitations on Craigslist for several semesters. In January, Joseph M. Bekken found a willing participant by the name of Sheryl Roberts, who asked what he was looking for. “I’m completely open. Sex, oral, etc… watching,” came the reply. Bekken, 36, who was NIC’s financial aid director, allegedly secured $587 in college funds for Roberts, then drove Feb. 2 to an apartment complex in Coeur d’Alene to have sex with her. When he got there, police were waiting. Roberts was the name investigators invented to reply to Bekken’s Craigslist ad and discover who was behind the illegal offer/Scott Maben, SR. More here.

• Also: Sex-for-grants plot alleged/Jeff Selle, Coeur d'Alene Press

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