Charges: Missouri man tried to trade Super Bowl LIVE tickets for sex with kids
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BRANSON NEWS: Police officers from a contingency of law enforcement agencies, working on enhanced Super Bowl prostitution enforcement, posted a phony ad on Craigslist Monday night titled, “Eagles suck and so does my entire family.”
The rest of the ad read, “In town for SB and brought my open and active family … I have a few hours to spend with you and the rest of my fun clan.”
Beard responded to the ad, according to the criminal complaint, and had an extended email conversation with an undercover officer pretending to be the father of a 13-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl. When Beard allegedly said he was interested, the officer offered the pair for $200 for an hour.
According to the criminal complaint, Beard also exchanged a series of sickening emails with an officer posing as the 15-year-old girl, wanting to know if she and her imaginary brother swallowed.
Beard allegedly said he was working for Super Bowl LIVE, the 10-day fan festival on Nicollet Mall, and offered $100 value VIP tickets to the event in return for the sex. By about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Beard was knocking on the door of a Minnetonka apartment, according to the complaint, where officers arrested him as soon as he identified himself.
Super Bowl Host Committee spokesman Mike Howard said he has no information that anyone named Justin Beard ever worked for Super Bowl LIVE.
County Attorney Freeman hailed the charges as the first of many Super Bowl-related cases to come, and the success of the combined effort of police in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Woodbury, Oakdale, Plymouth, Bloomington, Fargo, Grand Forks, Homeland Security, the FBI, and the Hennepin and Washington County Sheriff Offices.
“We’re watching, we’re going to charge them and we’re going to convict them,” Freeman said. “This conduct, particularly with underage children, is just simply horrible.”
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