A Louisiana TV information anchor has resigned after allegedly sexting who he believed was an underage woman.
KTBS anchor and director of stories Invoice Lunn stepped down after being accused of sending a 15-year-old specific photographs and texts.
He allegedly organized to satisfy up, however was shocked to search out three males on the different finish who say they’d orchestrated the entire set-up as a ‘predator hunter’ scheme.
An investigation was sparked on Could 29 after Lunn referred to as police claiming to have been the sufferer of an assault in Shreveport.
Nonetheless, officers advised KTBS they rapidly decided this was not true after talking with the lads.
Lunn, pictured with spouse Sheri in 2017, stepped down after being accused of sending a 15-year-old specific photographs.
Antonio Coleman, Kameron Kennon and Kataurio Grigsby mentioned they’d been posing as a teenage woman on courting app Meet Me for weeks in a bid to seize suspected pedophiles.
They advised information web site Myarklamiss they have been shocked to study that the particular person they have been conversing with was allegedly married father Lunn.
‘They’d a dialog happening and he requested how outdated she was,’ Coleman mentioned. ‘The woman advised him she was 15-years-old.
‘He would ship photos to her, he was saying he needed to do issues to her, specific issues.’
Louisiana TV information anchor Invoice Lunn has resigned after allegedly sexting what he believed was an underage woman
He claims the quantity getting used was the identical as that listed on Lunn’s LinkedIn profile.
‘It is loopy how briskly they’re prepared to satisfy younger girls,’ Kennon added.
The trio say they confronted Lunn who reportedly mentioned he had a spouse and youngsters earlier than fleeing the scene and calling police.
Officers arrived on the scene and detained him earlier than releasing him with out cost.
An investigation was sparked on Could 29 after Lunn referred to as police claiming to have been the sufferer of an assault in Shreveport
However Antonio Coleman, Kameron Kennon and Kataurio Grigsby declare they’d lured Lunn to an deal with by pretending to be a 15-year-old woman he needed to satisfy with
Nonetheless, his electronics have been seized as a part of an investigation. An inside probe has been launched at his administrative center the place he resigned efficient from Monday.
Lunn’s lawyer Dhu Thompson mentioned his consumer strenuously denies wrongdoing.
‘It’s our preliminary understanding that this incident was not the results of a regulation enforcement investigation, however moderately one executed by personal people.
‘Our main concern right now is that regulation enforcement receives all proof surrounding this incident in order that they will make a radical and full assessment. Mr. Lunn has cooperated with authorities and vehemently denies any allegations of wrongdoing.
‘It’s our hope that after a radical assessment of all of the proof surrounding this matter that Mr. Lunn will likely be proven to be harmless and cleared of all allegations.’
It isn’t Lunn’s first brush with the regulation nonetheless. In 2019, he was charged with impaired driving.
Whereas he was beneath the authorized alcohol degree he was nonetheless decided to be impaired and charged through quotation.
Lunn was launched with out cost however his electronics are being examined as a part of an investigation
Lunn joined KTBS in 2019 and was beforehand an anchor with KTSP throughout which era he had one significantly memorable slip of the tongue whereas on air.
The broadcaster was establishing a narrative about Boy Scouts throughout a newscast in 2013 when he mistakenly mentioned, ‘I pledge allegiance to the fag’.
Lunn rapidly apologized and took to Twitter to apologize for the error and to guarantee his followers that he has no ill-will in direction of the gay group – however solely after first laughing it off, to the ire of a few of his Twitter followers.
His Instagram bio states he’s a, ‘Journalist, creator, dad, fisherman, guitar picker’ who has been ‘Saved by Grace’.
