Crime & Safety

Parolee Arrested At Swim Meet, Claims Justin Bieber Told Him To Go

Rockford man turns up at a Riverside high school boys swim meet, tells police Justin Bieber's brainwaves sent him there.

From St. Charles Patch:

A Rockford man who was paroled in December about a year into a three-year sentence for exposing his genitalia and touching another man with it at a St. Charles gym is in hot water again, this time showing up uninvited to a high school swim meet in Riverside.

Lawrence E. Adamczyk, 49, was arrested Jan. 12 at Riverside Brookfield High School during a swim meet, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The news company reported Adamczyk started out heading from Rockford to Brookfield Zoo to find young boys with whom to have sex when pop star Justin Bieber sent him a message by brainwave to go to the school instead.

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Riverside police said school security called them after finding Adamczyk in a closed area, and when officers arrived, he was sitting in the bleachers, watching the swimmers, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. He later told police he performed a sex act while watching the competition.

According to the Sun-Times, Adamczyk has been on electronic monitoring since his parole last month for his conviction stemming from the incident in St. Charles.

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St. Charles Patch reported that Adamczyk was arrested on June 28, 2011, in that incident, after patrons of a local gym told police he exposed himself to them, and that he inappropriately touched three men.

In October 2011, St. Charles Patch reported that a judge sentenced Adamczyk to three years in prison on the aggravated battery charge in that incident.

Aspects of Adamczyk’s appearance in Riverside baffled police there, the Sun-Times reported, because his parole status indicated a history of prior sex offenses, including arrests for similar crimes in 2009 at a Rockford high school and in 2005 at the Northern Illinois University Campus. Yet, Riverside Police Chief Thomas Weitzel told the Sun-Times, Adamczyk has not been required to register as a sex offender.

Related:

  • June 28, 2011: Police: Rockford Man Arrested For Gym Groping
  • Oct. 31: 2011: CourtWatch: ... Prison Sentence for Flasher at St. Charles Gym


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