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The second episode in a series of seven detailing the child sex sting operation earlier this month in Marquette County will be revealed on Thursday on the TruBlu streaming app, and on-line at www.watchtrublu.com.
The man who ran the sting operation, along with local law enforcement, spoke with RRN News Wednesday afternoon about the second episode, and he commented about the reaction to last week’s episode here in the Upper Peninsula.
“Episode Two is very, very compelling,” Hansen said as he waited for a flight at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. “This one is interesting to me because you’ve got a case of a guy named Dylan Abramson, a young man, 21, almost 22 years old, on-line, he went by the name Jose. He had a sexucally-charged conversation with a teenaged girl.”
“The story, as he tells it, was he was on his way back to Houghton, where he lived and where he was studying to be an aerospace engineer at Michigan Tech, and he was visiting friends and decided, out of the blue, that he was gonna start chatting up this girl on social media, come over, and have a visit with her for sex.”
Hansen then tells us what it was like when Abramson allegedly walked into the house near Gwinn, only to find police, and not a teenaged girl.
“The minute he walked in, he looked pretty comfortable when he saw the decoy,” Hansen said. “He started settle in. But when I came out, he knew exactly what this was. He knew that he had been caught in a sting, threw his ball cap down on the ground, and what plays out from there is a very dramatic scene.”
Of course, you’ll need to tune in Thursday evening to see for yourself when the episode is unveiled on www.watchtrublu.com and on the service’s app, which is available on platforms such as Roku. It costs $4.99 per month and that fee covers all of the programs loaded onto that app.
Hansen, meanwhile, says he is aware of the buzz that last week’s episode generated here in the Upper Peninsula, and in particular, in Newberry, where that suspect, 61-year-old Vincent Roop, was revealed to have worked as a janitor in the Tahquamenon Area Schools.
“We;ve heard from a lot of them in the community,” Hansen said. “People telling stories about contact between this particular individual and children. No specific allegations of any criminal activity in the past, but I can tell you, law enforcement is looking into it, to make sure.”
The superintendent of the Tahquamenon Area Schools, Stacey Price, issued a statement after Hansen’s show went public:
“TAS is appalled and sickened to hear of the arrest of Vincent Roop. Vincent has not worked at TAS since June 30, 2023. He worked for the district for less than 8 months and during that time was out for medical reasons for 4 weeks. He left the position. While employed, he worked the later shift in the custodial department. He was hired through a third-party employer, EduStaff where there is an in-depth hiring process that includes a background check. All processes were followed. The safety of students and staff is always our top priority.”
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