The News Room [News Archive] Internet deputies arrest 3rd suspected pedophile only two weeks --- 42-year old Westland man had solicited 4 officers online Livonia, Michigan – The Wayne County Internet Crimes Unit, with the assistance of the Livonia Police Department, yesterday arrested its third suspected Internet pedophile in just two weeks, Sheriff Warren Evans announced today.
"While chatting with one officer, the suspect would excuse himself for a few minutes, while he switched to another chat room," Evans said. "We may recommend to the Prosecutor that this individual be brought up on multiple charges," Evans said. "It's incredible that a 42-year old would be soliciting sex from not one, but four young girls, all of whom actually turned out to be sheriff’s deputies." According to officers who made the arrest, the suspect was planning to pick up the girl in his truck and "show her how to have sex" while he played music from heavy metal rock group, AC/DC on the truck’s stereo. The suspect will be arraigned either Friday, January 31st or Saturday, February 1st at 36th District Court in Detroit. The arrest is the third in the two weeks since Evans restablished the Internet Unit, which was disbanded late last year by the previous administration. Last week, 32-year old Christopher Hayes of Brighton was arraigned on three counts of communicating with another on the Internet with intent to commit a crime. The week prior, Farmington Hills resident Scott Sellinger, 30, was charged with one count of the same crime. If convicted each could face up to 20 years in prison. "Every day, parents should remind their children: Don’t chat with strangers," Evans said. |
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At approximately
3:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, a 42-year old Westland man was
arrested in the parking lot of Laurel Park Mall in Livonia after
arriving for a meeting with a Sheriff’s Deputy he thought
was a 13-year old girl. Incredibly, the suspect had been actively
soliciting four different Sheriff’s Deputies online, each
of which he thought was an underage girl.