Predator Proof Snares Coal City Suspect In Wilmington: Complaint

WILMINGTON — The Will County State's Attorney's Office has filed traveling to meet a minor and solicitation to meet a child charges against 37-year-old Coal City resident Kyle McCue in connection with Friday's arrest by the Wilmington Police Department at a McDonald's fast-food restaurant.

According to the prosecutor's filing seeking to deny pretrial release for McCue, the Wilmington police responded to Friday's call "from a group calling themselves the Predatory Proof."

Officers learned that one of the members had been communicating electronically with McCue while posing as a 14-year-old girl who was about to turn 15.

"The defendant's communications were reviewed, the defendant states you are too young, and then he went to ask for her address multiple times. He stated he wanted her to lick his (private parts)," court documents show.

McCue also sent the 14-year-old girl persona a picture of his penis and included a face picture, Will County's prosecutors noted.

McCue agreed to meet the 14-year-old at the movie theater in Wilmington, but the plans changed to the McDonald's. A woman affiliated with Predator Proof called McCue when he was near McDonald's and "he stated that he left McDonald's because there were two men standing in the parking lot," court documents indicate.

Wilmington police pulled over McCue's vehicle and put him under arrest. The court documents note that the woman and man who are affiliated with Predator Proof "are not police officers."

McCue, who comes from West Oak Street in Coal City, was booked into the Will County Jail during the early morning hours of Saturday. The criminal complaint indicates that McCue traveled to meet a child, or a person he believed to be a child, being a persona of a 14-year-old girl, for the purpose of engaging in unlawful sexual conduct after using a computer online service, internet service, local bulletin board service, or any other device capable of electronic data storage or transmission to seduce, solicit, lure, entice or attempt to seduce, solicit, lure or entice, another person believed by McCue to be a child.

McCue is being kept in the Will County Jail under the SAFE-T-Act. His next court hearing is set for Dec. 6 in Courtroom 405.

On Nov. 5, Joliet Patch published another crime article surrounding an arrest made in Wilmington headined: "Predator Proof' Solves Another Crime In Wilmington: Police."

The Wilmington Police Department announced that 33-year-old Matthew Naughton of Wilmington was now sitting in the Will County Jail facing charges of solicitation to meet a minor and traveling to meet a minor, thanks to help from the group "Predator Proof."