By SUE SUCHYTA
Sunday Times Newspapers
WYANDOTTE – A 48-year-old Wyandotte man arrested the afternoon of Aug. 10 in Bishop Park after harassing an elderly woman, and offering money to two teenage girls to enter his car.
He later was charged with soliciting a minor.
The intoxicated man, who was wearing a gray shirt and shorts, allegedly offered the girls, ages 14 and 16, $25 to enter his car with him.
The girls said the man approached them, and complimented one girl’s “Champagne-colored hair” and the other girl’s “ginger” hair.
The man allegedly insinuated that they could “make cute ginger babies” together.
When he offered them money to join them, the girls became uncomfortable, and phoned a parent, who immediately contacted police.
When one of the girls told the man that police officers were on their way, he said he would “take the misdemeanor,” then would “come back for a felony,” making a gun-like gesture with his hand.
After police officers arrived, an elderly woman told them that she had seen the man grab an older woman, who had since left the park, by the hand, against her will.
Once the man was arrested and placed in the back of a police vehicle, he became uncooperative, threatened self-harm, and starting biting his own leg.
At the police station, he refused to cooperate with the booking process, and would not allow himself to be fingerprinted. When he continued to threaten self-harm, he was placed in a padded safety vest.
A preliminary breath test was administered, and the man had a blood-alcohol content of 0.15, nearly twice the 0.08 limit for legally drunk in Michigan.
Later, when the man was sober, he continued to resist the fingerprinting part of the booking process.
He claimed he had COVID-19, and threatened to spit on the police officers, so a spit net was placed over his head for processing. He continued to shout obscenities and maintained a combative posture throughout his interactions with the police officers.