Berwyn Police Blotter
“What r u wearing?”
March 16, 2008, 11:16 AM
The real answer was, “My badge.” On five dates in the first two weeks of March, a Berwyn police detective entered an AOL chatroom in the persona of a non-existent 16-year-old Berwyn girl, and was immediately approached by a man who used the screen name “Bankerslifedb”, and who sent the imaginary girl instant messages stating he was a 42-year-old male from Joliet. They engaged in a 20-minute instant message conversation, the first day. On subsequent days, the “girl” logged on, and the same man struck up conversations with “her” in which he suggested he might visit her if she were alone, and in which he made explicitly sexual proposals, as well as offering to bring her money and food. At one point, he emailed her a photograph of himself. The man asked what she was wearing; he was provided with an imaginary address in north Berwyn. A few days later, he gave the “girl” his cell phone number, prompting police to have a female officer call him and arrange to meet. The man told the female officer she had a sexy phone voice, stated that he knew she was 16 and he was 38 [younger than he originally claimed), asked whether she shaved, and made further sexual suggestions. On the appointed date, a black Lexus parked across the street from the Berwyn address given by the “girl”. A man matching the photograph sent to the “girl” stepped out of the car, approached the address and was arrested. He spontaneously stated, “What did I do? I just brought a girl some money!” When confronted with evidence of two weeks’ worth of sexually-oriented Internet chats with what he believed was an underage girl, Berres told police he had been “just talking Internet talk like everyone else.” The man’s ex-wife gave police permission to seize his computer. She later posted his bond. Morris resident Dean Berres, 44, was charged with one felony count of indecent solicitation of a child.
April 2, 2008
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Way to go Berwyn Police!
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