Charles Pugh has been charged for sexually molesting a 13-year-old boy
A popular politician who has worked for the progress of his community and known for his good deeds has been arrested for sexually molesting a 13-year-old boy. Police in Detroit have arrested a former Detroit politician in Manhattan early Thursday for allegedly molesting a teenage boy when he worked as a TV anchor in the Motor City about 13 years ago, officials said.
According to the NewYork Post, Charles Pugh, 44, a former Detroit City Council president who now works as a waiter in Manhattan, was nabbed by US Marshals working with Detroit police, according to a statement from Wayne County prosecutors.
The 14-year-old boy went to Fox 2 Detroit, where Pugh worked in 2003-04, to perform with a theater group and asked him about an internship. The two exchanged numbers but the boy didn’t end up working there, officials said.
In the summer of 2003, Pugh invited the boy to his home several times, and they kept in touch by phone and text messages, officials said.
He allegedly had “inappropriate sexual contact” with the boy at his home from September 2003 through May 2004, prosecutors said.
Pugh faces three counts first-degree criminal sexual conduct, which carries a maximum penalty of up to life in prison, and three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.
“Despite what the defendant has meant to the city in the past, and the positive work he did here, we cannot and will not turn a blind eye to these alleged facts,” according to a statement from Prosecutor Kym Worthy’s Office.
Authorities are working to have him extradited.
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