Police: Couple May Have Been Trying to Solicit Underage Girls at Wyandotte Street Art Fair

Police arrested a man on unrelated charges Thursday after two young girls said the man and his girlfriend tried to get the children to come back with them to their house in Wyandotte.

The girls, who were in their young teens, said the couple approached them in while they were at the .

According to police, the first girl said she was sitting on a park bench when the couple, who are both 21, walked up to her and told her she was cute and asked how old she was.

When she said 13, the woman said that was too young and she and her boyfriend walked away.

According to police, a short time later, the woman walked up to the girl again and said, “My boyfriend thinks you’re yummy,” and handed her a note with their names and cell phone number on it.

The girl told her parents what had happened and they called police. Officers ran the cell phone number and discovered that it belonged to a woman whom they had arrested before. Her boyfriend was wanted on several outstanding traffic warrants. Neither of them have any sex-based offenses on their records, police said.

Police Chief Daniel Grant said he was familiar with the couple and spotted them at the park on Thursday. He spoke with both of them and arrested the man on his outstanding warrants.

“They never actually solicited sex from the girl and I didn’t believe we had enough evidence to rise to criminal prosecution, but I at least wanted to talk to them and tell them to knock it off,” Grant said. “They denied it and said if a little girl said that, she was lying. I asked them how did she get your names and number then.”

While police were arresting the man, Grant said, another young teen told officers that the couple also had approached her at the art fair.

“She said that they told her she looked yummy, too,” Grant said. “I had a chat with them and told them not to come back to Bishop Park and that we were on to what they were trying to do.”

In addition to this incident, Grant said, two vendors reported that items were stolen from their booths during the art fair. One had a sweatshirt swiped and the other had a ring stolen.

"Other than that, it was a pretty quiet fair," Grant said. "We had a few little fights, but nothing out of the ordinary."