ST. CROIX, US Virgin Islands — DJ Dave Herman won’t fight extradition to New Jersey on charges that he tried to set up a sexual encounter with a 7-year-old girl.
Herman did not enter a plea when he appeared in court in the US Virgin Islands on Friday. He could face up to life in prison.
Herman’s lawyer and two supporters declined comment after the hearing.
Magistrate Judge George Cannon ordered Herman returned to New Jersey, but it is unclear when he would be transferred. Assistant Federal Public Defender Gabriel Villegas said Herman has health and medical issues that should be treated on the US mainland, but he did not elaborate.
Herman, a pioneering rock-’n’-roll disc jockey at the former WNEW-FM, lives in Airmont, NY, and St. Croix.
Authorities say he exchanged online messages with an undercover agent posing as a 36-year-old woman with a young daughter. Prosecutors said Herman tried to arrange illegal sexual encounters with the child in New York and Bergen County, NJ, until indicating he wanted to fly the pair to St. Croix so he could have sex with the girl there.