BUFORD, Ga.,None — Gwinnett County police have cited three men accused of soliciting sex in a Kmart restroom.
The citations follow an undercover sting operation by the Gwinnett County Vice Unit at the Kmart located in the 1600 block of Buford Highway in Buford. Police said they acted on a citizen complaint about lewd acts occurring between adult men in the Kmart restroom.
Police cited Jerry Lane Casper, 56, of Duluth; Alejandro Dearo, 37, of Dacula; and Kenneth David Butler, 44, of Buford. All were cited with loitering for the purpose of engaging in solicitation of sex acts in a public place, a misdemeanor offense.
Investigators said undercover officers made contact with one of the men via the Internet and set up a meeting for the strict purpose of engaging in sex.
When the undercover officer entered the restroom, authorities said he made contact with the suspect and after a brief conversation, the suspect solicited the officer for a sex act.
Police said they confronted two other men who were in the restroom and the men said they were there for the same reason, at which point all three suspects were cited.
The attorney for Kenneth Butler told Channel 2 Action News that his client is innocent and was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"He is a diabetic and having some problems and what he was in the restroom for - he will be able to substantiate that through court and doctor's record. The facts alleged in the ticket are completely false. [Butler] was at the wrong place and the wrong time. He had nothing to do with this sting operation," said Curt Hilbert with Hilbert Law Firm.
Hilbert pointed out his client was not taken into custody but only received the citation.
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