LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Livingston County Sheriff Mike Murphy studies his division has turned over two males “believed to be in the Country illegally” to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — higher often called ICE.
Sheriff Murphy studies that on Wednesday, his deputies had been dispatched to Audrey Rae Lane close to Latson Highway in Genoa Township for a suspicious particular person grievance.
Once they arrived, they had been met by a gaggle calling themselves Bikers In opposition to Predators, whose members mentioned they had been “trying to identify the subject or subjects who reached out to one of their decoys on social media.”
The members of the group, in keeping with the sheriff in a information launch, mentioned whereas texting somebody, they “clearly stated that they were 13 years of age” and that that dialog “became explicit in nature and the subject requested the 13-year-old meet up with them at the above location for sex.”
The sheriff says the members of the group “identified two Hispanic males as the subject or subjects they were talking to.”
Deputies took the boys to the Livingston County Sheriff’s Workplace, the place they had been interviewed with the assistance of a translator, the sheriff says.
The sheriff’s workplace then contacted ICE as a result of “both males are believed to be in the Country illegally.”
Right now, it is not clear if the county will nonetheless be investigating the 2 males for the claimed little one predation. It is also not recognized presently the place the 2 males had been taken, the place they’re being held, or if their citizenship standing has been confirmed.
The sheriff’s workplace says the “incident is still under investigation.”