The News Room [News Release]

Sheriff Contact: John Roach: 313-224-0615
Release Date: July 19, 2004

Prostitution unit nabs 53-year old man looking for sex with an 11-year old --- Chesterfield Township man had prior sex offenses

Wayne County Sheriff’s deputies on Friday arrested what they say is one of the worst sexual predators they have encountered. According to Sheriff Warren Evans, Randall Raymond Johnson, 53, of Chesterfield Township, attempted to go through a prostitute to arrange a sexual encounter with an 11-year old girl.

Approximately two weeks ago, the Wayne County Sheriff’s office received a tip from a confidential informant about the man. The informant directed Randall to a female undercover deputy who said she could find him a young girl. In taped conversations, Randall offered to pay the undercover officer $200 for her service.

Randall also said that he planned to photograph the encounter and that if things “went well” he would be interested in having sex with the girl’s eight-year old brother. Randall said he intended to videotape that encounter.

“The conversations Mr. Randall had with our undercover officer were extremely graphic and specific in nature,” Evans said. “He also was very comfortable talking about his experiences, which is a strong indicator that he may have done something like this before.”

A meeting was set up at a hotel in southwest Detroit on Friday evening where Randall, the undercover officer and the girl were supposed to meet. Sheriff’s deputies arrested Randall shortly after he arrived at the site.

Based on Randall’s conversations, Evans said his investigators are looking into the possibility that Randall has molested young children in the past. Eighty explicit images involving the young children were found on Randall’s computer.

Randall was remanded without bond and is being held at the Wayne County jail. He was video arraigned on Sunday in 34th District court in Romulus on attempted Criminal Sexual Conduct [1st-degree] a 20-year felony

Since his computers and the child pornography were seized in Macomb County, we will be turning over those files to Macomb County’s computer crime unit, which will work with Macomb prosecutors on the case.

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