2024-05-02 22:07:43
Feds capture man charged in Minnesota with luring men into sexually exploiting young childrenThe many incidents involved male and female victims from newborns to 7 years old, according to the charges.
William Guy Amick III, 36, was arrested Tuesday in Milan, Mich., about 40 miles southwest of Detroit, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) announced.
Members of the Detroit Fugitive Apprehension Team had information that
Amick was staying with a friend at an apartment in Milan, said U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Farris Wooton.
"A maintenance man saw him in Apartment 1," Wooton said. The officers "knocked and announced themselves" and after getting no reply used the keys to enter, the spokesman said.
"They found Amick hiding in a back bedroom closet," he said. "They took him into custody without incident."Amick, of suburban Pittsburgh, remained held Thursday morning without bail in the Washtenaw County Jail pending efforts by Minnesota officials to have him extradited to Fillmore County.
On April 18, Amick was charged in District Court with 13 counts of child sexual abuse material, including using minors in a sexual performance, soliciting a child to engage in sexual conduct and possession of pornographic work involving a minor.
The many incidents involved male and female victims
from newborns to 7 years old, according to the charges.
Amick committed many of these crimes while living in the southern Minnesota communities of Mabel and Rushford for about two years until May 2023, the charges said.
He often has posed as a woman using artificial intelligence when interacting with men online to create material of the men sexually abusing their own children, the BCA added.
The BCA said that tips to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2021 and 2022 alerted the agency to Amick and his suspected sexual exploitation of children.
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