NORTH HAVERHILL — A 44-year-old Windsor man pleaded guilty in attempting to meet a person who he believed was an underage girl for a sexual encounter and will spend no longer than six months in prison providing he abides by the terms of his court-imposed conditions.

Andrew Snide, of South Route 5, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted felonious sexual assault and one count of using a computer for prohibited services in Grafton County Superior Court on July 1, according to court records.

Snide’s guilty plea and sentence comes less than three months after he was apprehended by Vermont state troopers on an extradition warrant out of New Hampshire during a motor vehicle stop in Hartland after he had failed to appear at jury selection for his scheduled trial in April.

He was sentenced to 12 months in prison, with six months suspended for three years and two years probation, on the prohibited use of a computer conviction. That sentence is to be followed by concurrent sentences of three-and-a-half to seven years, fully suspended for 10 years, on each of the attempted felonious sexual assault convictions, according to court records.

Snide’s conditions include an order prohibiting him from having contact with all minor children except his own and a requirement for a sex offender evaluation within six months of his release from prison.

A public defender attorney for Snide did not respond to an email seeking comment.

Snide was arrested and charged with attempting to meet a person he believed was a 15-year-old girl with whom he was communicating online for a sexual encounter in 2020. In fact, he was communicating online with a Lebanon police officer posing as an underage girl as part of a sex crimes sting operation.

Police arrested Snide in 2020 at a supermarket in West Lebanon where he had gone in the belief he was meeting up with the girl for sex, police said.