PEMBROKE PINES, FLA. (WSVN) - Police have arrested a Miami man after he admitted to trying to lure a young girl into having sex with him.
Police arrested 26-year-old Lawrence Perry at Paul Maxwell Park in Pembroke Pines Tuesday where he was under the impression that he would be meeting a 14-year-old girl. Police said he made plans to meet her inside a bathroom to engage in sex acts. What Perry didn’t know, according to police, was that he was making those plans with an undercover Pembroke Pines Police detective.
Perry appeared in bond court, Wednesday.
According to a police report, when asked why he thought he was being arrested, Perry said, “I was going to meet a child.”
Investigators said Perry posted an online ad selling a hover board last week. When a young girl expressed interest in buying it, Perry went to her home. After meeting, police said he sent her a smilie emoji with its tongue sticking out. He then took the conversation further and asked for her age and pictures of her. Police said he complimented her private parts and asked her in very vulgar terms if she’s ever performed oral sex.
She responded, according to the police report, “That’s scary to me.”
That’s when, officials said, he sent a picture of his penis to her and said, “Why is it scary? There is nothing scary about it.”
He again became extremely graphic and vulgar when talking about the act.
Investigators said the girl’s parents saw what he was saying to their daughter, reported it, and an undercover police detective got involved and arranged the meeting in the park.
“As a result of that, a detective was able to get involved,” said Pembroke Pines Police Capt. Al Xiques, “and pose as the child on the computer. A meet was arranged where he wanted to meet her in order to have sex with the young lady. When he did show up for that purpose, police was able to take him into custody.”
According to the report, Perry sent more nude pictures of himself along with vulgar comments.
Police said Perry also acknowledged that his actions were wrong. He told police that he needed a release since his “fiancé was pregnant with his third child, and she was extremely hormonal.”
Perry faces multiple charges including using a computer to solicit a child and transmitting material harmful to minors.
Perry is being held at the Broward County Jail on a $57,000 bond.
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