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The third of the seven suspects in the August sex sting operation in Marquette County will be profiled Thursday in the “Takedown” series, produced by TruBlu Media journalist Chris Hansen.
The seven men were arrested in early August after they allegedly showed up at a home in Forsyth Township to have sex with a 15-year-old girl they had talked with on-line. Problem for them is, when they arrived at the home near Gwinn, there was no girl. Instead, Hansen was there, along with police.
The first two episodes in the series have featured 61-year-old Vincent Roop, a former janitor in the Tahquamenon Area Schools, and 21-year-old Michigan Tech University aerospace student Dylan Abrahmson.
The third suspect, who’s takedown you will see on Thursday, is 41-year-old James Peterson, from the Menominee County town of Wallace.
“What’s fascinating and disturbing about James Lee Peterson is that this is not his first time, and that he had been in trouble with the law before for having sex with someone who is underage,” Hansen told RRN News on Wednesday. “He claimed that it was a boyfriend-girlfriend, Romeo-Juliet type situation, but yet, there was a criminal charge filed. Now, he drove two hours from Wisconsin to meet someone he thought was a teenaged girl. He sent sexually-explicit pictures of himself and engaged in sexually-charged conversations on-line. And he showed up.”
Hansen says that Peterson showed up at the sting house while the previous case was still in interview mode.
“It was quite a scramble,” Hansen said of getting the Abrahmson suspect out of the house, and the police and camera crews back into position, just in time for Peterson to show up for his sting operation.
The “takedown” program is available at www.watchtrublu.com, and the TruBlu app. The cost is $4.99 a month.
Hansen began doing predator stings like this nearly two decades ago for the NBC program “To Catch a Predator” before starting his own on-line streaming venture. The sting operation in Marquette County was coordinated through the Marquette County Sheriff’s Department, with help from several other law enforcement agencies.
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