ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – The Atlantic City Police Department reported the arrest of a registered sex offender who tried to lure a child on Sunday.
At 5:33 PM, Officers Jermaine Clay and Bayron Zelaya-Chavez responded to a call on the first block of north Sovereign Avenue.
A 12-year-old girl’s parents informed the officers that a man on a bicycle had tried to beckon their daughter into a backyard using hand signals and whistles. The girl alerted her parents, and the man fled the scene on his bicycle.
Officers obtained a description and surveillance footage, leading to the arrest of Kasheen Marshall, 48, of Newark, NJ, at California and Pacific Avenues.
Marshall faces charges of luring, enticing a child, criminal trespass, and failure to register as a sex offender. He is currently held at the Atlantic County Justice Facility.