A 79-year-old man in Texas was arrested after the eagle-eyed staff at a local fast food restaurant called police to report that he was dining with a 13-year-old girl and something “didn’t seem right about the situation,” an observation that proved to be true, police said.
Michael Jerome Clark Sr. was taken into custody last week and charged with one count each of soliciting prostitution from an individual under 18 years of age and indecency with a child through sexual contact, jail records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
According to a press release from the Texarkana Texas Police Department, officers at around noon on Tuesday responded to a 911 call at a Whataburger located in the 2700 block of New Boston Road regarding Clark and his juvenile dining companion.
The Whataburger staff told the emergency dispatcher that “a juvenile girl and an older man were there eating together and something didn’t seem right about the situation,” the release states. Upon arriving at the scene, investigators say they spent some time “trying to figure out what was going on” between Clark and the child, but that it soon became...
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