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Sheriff Contact: John Roach: 313-224-0615
Release Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2004

Lincoln Park father of four’s birthday wish: sex with 14-year old girl he met on the Net --- 39-year old was met instead by sheriff’s deputies

In one of its most peculiar cases to date, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Internet Crime Unit today arrested a father of four from Lincoln Park who investigators say wanted to celebrate his 39th birthday by having sex with who he thought was a 14-year old girl he had met in an Internet chat room.

What Kevin Hultgren didn’t realize, however, was that he actually had been chatting with an undercover sheriff’s deputy. So instead, he will be spending his birthday in the Wayne County jail, according to Sheriff Warren Evans.

“The alarming thing about this case is that it shows very clearly to what lengths some adult men will go to take advantage of young girls,” Evans said. “It’s very disturbing that a man who has children of his own would do something like this.”

Hultgren was arrested at approximately 10:30 am outside a bookstore on Detroit’s far east side. Investigators say the suspect, who has children ages 11, seven, two and another due later this year, chatted with the undercover deputy for about a month.

As part of their regular communication with Macomb County’s Internet officers, Wayne County investigators learned that Hultgren had chatted in the past with a Macomb deputy, although the suspect never followed through with a meet.

“ He tried to play it safe with us because he had expressed concern that he was chatting with an officer,” Evans said. “He wanted to speak to the girl over the phone before he would agree to meet. So, we used a female undercover officer to make the call and he fell for it.”

Hultgren was charged with three counts of illegal use of the Internet. If convicted, the maximum penalty is 20 years in prison. He is free after having posted 10 percent of a $150,000 bond

The arrest is the unit’s first suspected sexual predator of the New Year. In 2003, undercover officers made 33 arrests and had a 100% convictions rate.

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