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Fired Disney Channel actor now facing federal charge for trying to have sex with a 13-year-old boy

The actor who played the grandfather on the made-in-Utah Disney Channel show “Andi Mack” is now facing a federal charge after he allegedly tried to set up a sexual encounter with a person he believed to be a 13-year-old boy.

Stoney Westmoreland, 48, has been charged with one count of coercion and enticement in U.S. District Court in Utah. He had been scheduled to make his initial appearance in 3rd District Court on Friday on six previously filed state felonies. But those counts will be dropped to make way for the federal charge, according to the U.