CLICK BELOW TO HEAR JACK HALL’S INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS HANSEN, TRUBLU MEDIA
The last 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 an underage teenager they had talked with on-line. When they showed up, though, Hansen and the Marquette County Sheriff’s Department were there, instead.
This week’s episode shows might be the most shocking of the seven, as 68-year-old Calvin Veldt allegedly drove all the way from Sault Ste. Marie, only to get caught in the sting operation organized by Hansen and Marquette County Sheriff Greg Zyburt.
“This is a guy who was a truck driver, and there was a very graphic chat,” Hansen told RRN News on Wednesday. “There was no question what he wanted from this 15-year-old girl. He got in his car and he drove a very long distance to make this sexual liaison happen. So, he was determined. It was thought out. He weighed the risks, and he showed up.”
But what happened after he showed up is something that stunned even Hansen, who’s been doing these sting operations for nearly two decades.
“He’s 68, and the guy was moving a little slowly, got to the door, and talked about taking some of his clothes off,” Hansen said. “And then, and this is a first, not only in the Marquette investigation, but also in other investigations for as far as I can remember, he actually offers me money to buy his way out of this situation!”
Hansen’s response?
“I say to him, I don’t want your money, I want the truth,” he said. “It’s a very compelling moment, as our viewers will see.”
The “takedown” program is available at www.watchtrublu.com, and the TruBlu app. The cost is $4.99 a month, and you can watch it on devices like Roku and Amazon Fire TV. You can also see the Marquette County episodes, and others, on the TruBlu Media YouTube channel, for no cost. Those episodes are edited to remove some of the harder language, however. 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.
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