A Dearborn Heights EMT is facing two felony charges after allegedly sending sexually explicit messages and attempting to meet up with who he believed to be a 13-year-old girl from Whitmore Lake.
Bradley Kyle Martin, 60, was arraigned Thursday at the 52-1 District Court in Novi on one count of using a computer/internet to communicate with someone for the purpose of committing a crime, and one count of accosting a child for immoral purposes.
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Martin — who is also a former reserve officer for the Dearborn Heights Police Department — pleaded not guilty to both charges and has opted for a court-appointed lawyer.
According to investigators, Martin had been conversing online for weeks with a decoy account created by a Michigan-based, citizen-led group to help law enforcement catch child predators.
“Mr. Martin believed that he was communicating with a 13-year-old child, sent explicit photos of himself, engaged in sexual conversations with this child and then came to Highland Township on Monday [June] 22 to meet up with this child, when he was ultimately arrested,” said Oakland County Sheriff’s Deputy Ty Branscum at the arraignment.
The vigilante group says it had previously engaged Martin with a separate decoy account in December 2023, however after an investigation by Novi police and review by the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office, no charges were filed.
Martin was issued a $75,000 cash or surety bond in the case and is scheduled for a probable cause conference at 9 a.m. July 8. His preliminary exam was set for 1:30 p.m. July 15.