A Calgary, Alberta, man was arrested last month after he showed up at a Lewiston hotel for an Internet-arranged meeting to which he promised to bring child pornography.

Eric John Gauthier, 49, was indicted in the Eastern District of Wisconsin on charges of transmitting child pornography to an undercover police officer in Milwaukee, and in the District of Idaho on charges of transportation of sexually explicit images of minors and importation of obscene matter.

Gauthier appeared in court in Idaho in late February, where he waived detention and identity hearings. He was then extradited to Milwaukee, where he appeared in court last week. The Wisconsin charges are expected to be resolved before the Idaho charges.

According to the affidavit filed with the Wisconsin complaint, the investigation began in early February, when a Milwaukee citizen called the FBI to report that a man with whom she had been chatting on the Internet had shown her images of child pornography. The undercover officer then posed as a friend of hers named Janet and began her own series of chats with Gauthier, during which he showed her similar images. He then proposed that she and the other woman both meet him in Lewiston, where he would give them CDs of the child pornography and have sex with them.

Gauthier was arrested by agents of the FBI, the Idaho State Police and the Lewiston Police Department when he arrived at the Red Lion Hotel in Lewiston