PRIEST SNARED IN ‘NET SEX STING         

PFMLIT CLERGY, General, GOOD POLICING CATCHES SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS, INTERNET OFFENDER CASES, MICHIGAN, SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF TRUST

The Rev. Shamaun Beas, a 35 year old priest, was arrested in an Internet sex sting after allegedly arranging to meet someone he thought was a 14 year old girl. He was charged with offenses including sexually abusive activity involving a child and using a computer to commit a crime. He was arrested after driving by a home near Detroit where he had agreed to meet an investigator posing as the teenage girl in an Internet chat room. Beas is a visiting priest from Pakistan.

(Warren, Michigan)