Lawyer: Former Fairfax City mayor plans to enter plea next month in meth-for-sex sting case

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) -- A former Virginia mayor is no longer fighting a criminal charge that he tried to trade drugs for sex.

Ex-Fairfax Mayor R. Scott Silverthorne waived his right to a preliminary hearing on a drug distribution charge Wednesday in Fairfax County General District Court.

His lawyer said Silverthorne plans to enter a guilty plea or a no contest plea next month in Circuit Court.

Silverthorne was arrested in August by Fairfax County police after a sting at a Tysons Corner hotel. Police say they set up the sting after receiving a tip that Silverthorne was using a dating website to set up sexual encounters with men in exchange for drugs.

Police say Silverthorne gave an undercover detective two grams of methamphetamine outside the hotel before his arrest.