Men seeking sex lured from Internet to Macomb Township house
Sheriff's deputies arrest 3 in last 2 weeks
January 6, 2006
By DAN CORTEZ
FREE PRESS STAFF
WRITER
The Macomb County Sheriff's Office is using a
Macomb Township home as a
purported rendezvous spot to arrest men who think they are going to a sexual
encounter with underage girls they met on the Internet.
Sheriff Mark Hackel said Friday that the home, which is less than a mile from
his own residence, has been used to make three arrests in the past two weeks.
Men from Lincoln
Park,
Warren and Ypsilanti
were arrested. Each faces charges including
sexually abusive activity and
accosting a child for immoral purposes.
Mike Rizzo, owner of
Express
Builders, donated a model home for the operation, Hackel said. Reserve
officers posing as young girls in online chats set up meetings at the home. When
the suspects arrive, they are met by three to five arresting officers.
Hackel, who got the idea of using private homes from NBC-TV's Dateline news
magazine program, said several home builders have volunteered use of
single-family residences. He said going public with the information puts
suspects on notice that they may get caught.
They need to know that there are cops out there, Hackel said.
Contact DAN CORTEZ at 586-469-1827 or
dcortez@freepress.com.
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Men seeking sex lured from Internet to Macomb
Township house
Mike Rizzo, owner of Express Builders, donated a model home for the MACE
sting operation. Reserve officers posing as young girls in online chats
set up meetings at the home.When the suspects arrive, they are met by
three to five arresting officers.
For more information on Express Builders:
http://www.expressbldrs.com/sf_index.html
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