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Man Tries To Hook Up With 14-Year-Old, Who Is Actually Undercover Cop

81011jumpstreet.jpg A 63-year-old man who tried to hook up with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl came in for a surprise when the "teen" turned out to actually be an undercover cop. Michael Gruda was arrested on Monday night for an attempted criminal sex act with a minor. Between this and the City Island bar crackdowns, it seems like we could have a 21 Jump Street reality show in addition to a movie.

Gruda, a construction manager, had been chatting online for over a year with three different teens who he believed to be 14-year-old Queens girls...but all three were actually the same young-looking vice detective. When Gruda met with one of the three this week, he took her to a restaurant where she again stated her "age." Later, he asked if she knew a secluded location they could go to hookup, and she said her nearby home was empty; Gruda was arrested at the home, and faces up to four years in prison—which goes to show that you truly never know who you might be talking to online.

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  • BottomlessChips

    Great use of resources.

    A year and three different accounts to catch a non-violent person in an entrapment-like ruse.

    Yay!

  • FU Boy

    Humbert Humbert strikes again.  Guy must have only been seeing what he wanted if he couldn't tell that the person he was talking to wasn't 14...

  • harveyharevi

    DOG BITES MAN

  • Why don't you have a seat right over there?

  • m015094

    Yeah, but was she hot?

  • MikeyKnows

    Not defending this old due, but how is that not entrapment?

  • Christopher Havens

    courts have held that it is not 

  • mghallock

    He, of his own volition, engaged in an encounter with a "14 year old," and continued to escalate into meeting her. He could have disengaged at any time, but chose not to.

  • Rocknrope

    You've got to be completely delusional if you think a 16 year old wants anything to do with a 63-year old.  Teenagers think people in their 30s are over the hill.

  • jibbly

    Dude he thought they were 14! Four fucking teen! A 63yo might as well be a mummy to kid that age.

  • Castration!
     

  • antimisogynycrusader

    Ewww.....

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