Note: This doesn't appear to be II/ICAC connected, but sending fyi.
Man arrested after police find him in bushes with teen
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
By Loretta Park
Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau
lpark(a)standard.net
CENTERVILLE -- A 31-year-old Pennsylvania man is facing charges after
getting caught in the bushes at a Centerville elementary school with a
15-year-old boy he met on the Internet, police said.
Charles Lamar Ness, of Skippack, Pa., is charged with third-degree felony
unlawful sexual activity with a minor and enticing a minor over the
Internet, a class A misdemeanor, following Friday night's arrest.
Ness appeared in 2nd District Court in Farmington Monday and could be facing
federal charges following a further investigation, said Centerville Police
Sgt. Von Steenblik.
A police officer spotted a rental car in the parking lot of Jennie P.
Stewart Elementary School, 1155 N. Main St., at 10 p.m. Friday, Steenblik
said. The officer got his dog out to go for a walk and noticed the car was
empty.
The officer was returning to his car when he spotted the suspect and the
teenager in the bushes near the school. The officer asked them why they were
in the bushes, but neither wanted to talk, Steenblik said. The officer then
called to have the teenager's parents brought to the school.
That is when the teenager told officers he met Ness online in a chat room.
He originally told officers that he just met Ness to talk, but when officers
searched the boy's computer, they found explicit chat logs about what the
two wanted to do, Steenblik said.
Officers have confiscated a laptop computer from Ness' hotel room in West
Valley City and are searching it to see if there may be more victims.
The teenager told officers he engaged in oral sex with the man because he
was curious.
Ness came to Utah June 12 to discuss buying a frozen-yogurt franchise,
Steenblik said.
No charges were filed against the teenager.
