Disney Channel actor Stoney Westmoreland is jailed for two years after being accused of trying to entice a minor into sex

Stoney Westmoreland, 52, was arrested in 2018 after trying to meet an investigator who was posing as a 13-year-old teenager on Grindr, police said

Westmoreland, who played grandfather 'Ham' on Disney's hit series Andy Mack, took a plea deal with the prosecution and will spend 24 months behind bars

The disgraced actor originally faced a ten-year sentence stemming from charges of enticement of a minor over the Internet or text

After taking the deal, he was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of using interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor

A former Disney Channel actor will spend two years in federal prison for allegedly enticing a minor into sex, prosecutors said.

Stoney Westmoreland, 52, communicated with an undercover officer on the app Grindr and was arrested in 2018 after trying to meet the investigator who was posing as a 13-year-old teenager.

Westmoreland, who played grandfather 'Ham' on Disney's hit series Andy Mack, took a plea deal with the prosecution and will spend 24 months behind bars followed by ten years of supervised release, TMZ reported.

The disgraced actor originally faced a ten-year sentence stemming from charges of enticement of a minor over the Internet or text.

After taking the deal, he was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of using interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor.

Westmoreland's lawyers had argued that the actor believed he was communicating with an adult roleplaying as a 13-year-old and had no real intention of meeting with a minor.

In addition to the sentence, Westmoreland will not be allowed to interact with minors without adult supervision.

His electronic devices and social media accounts will also be subject to random inspections upon his release, according to TMZ.

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