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Friday, June 11, 2010
Perry Twp. police nab 22-year-old wanting sex from a 15-year-old
Montgomery County prosecutors this afternoon, June 11, filed felony importuning charges against a 22-year-old New Lebanon man for attempting to arrange to have sex with a 15-year-old girl.
According to Perry Twp. Police Chief Bob Bowman, local officers with the assistance of the RANGE task force set up a sting June 10 and arrested Andrew Michael Meade at a township park.
Bowman said police earlier were contacted by school officials and a mother, all of whom shared the suspicion that an adult was targeting students through MySpace accounts and text messages. Yesterday, the mother called to say that person was again texting her daughter. With the family’s permission, a township officer impersonated the 15-year-old.
A meeting was set up for later that day at the park. Bowman said Meade “was very explicit in what he wanted to do” and clearly understood the child was 15.
But instead of a 15-year-old, Meade was met and arrested by a female township officers and a number of colleagues from the task force.
Bowman said the arrest comes just a week after Joseph Cummings of New Lebanon was sentenced to prison for five and one-half years for luring 13- to 16-year-old girls for sex.
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The security guard got interested Thursday, June 10, when he saw a man with computer paper in hand go to the side of a downtown building on West First Street.
A group of students was gathered as the man placed three sheets of computer paper on the building’s wall. Each sheet contained a pornographic image of various activities, best left to the reader’s imagination.
When police arrived, the man said he saw nothing wrong with what he was doing. Afterall, he told police, he was in the midst of a disagreement with a school housed in the building. The school had apparently dismissed him from one of its program.
The man was given a ride to the county lockup to await a decision on formal charges.
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Prosecutors are expected to file felony aggravated burglary charges this afternoon, June 11, against a Celina man who allegedly duped an elderly Dayton woman last weekend.
Brandon Lykins, 22, returned yesterday to the woman’s home on Fieldstone to attempt to explain his earlier actions, according to Detective Bill Myers. The woman would have none of that and yelled for help. As Lykins fled, neighbors came running and held the man until police arrived.
Myers said police were already closing in on Lykins with the help of the public — including Lykins’ mother. Police had ATM videos from four or five sites showing Lykins using the woman’s ATM card. Those videos were broadcast on WHIO-TV, which prompted a number of calls.
“We got six from the Celina area that identified the man, and his mother also called to say that was her son,” Myers said.
Saturday, June 5, the elderly woman answered her front door. The woman thought the young man on the stoop was a neighbor’s son, who had once fixed her vacuum. She invited the young man in, chatted with him, gave him $20 for gas and offered to make him a sandwich. While she was fixing the sandwich, the young man said he would wash up. Instead, he went into her bedroom where he took a credit card and debit card.
Rather than sit down and eat the sandwich, the young man said he was going to get gas and would be right back. He never returned.
When the woman later found her cards missing she called a neighbor, who called police and got a list of transactions on the cards.
That same neighbor on Thursday heard the woman call for help and chased down Lykins, keeping him corner until police arrived.
“There will be more charges presented to the grand jury,” Detective Myers said.
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