FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- A Nevada couple has been sentenced to over a decade in prison after police said they tried to get a 15-year-old girl to run away to Las Vegas to be the husband's sex partner. Problem was, the girl was actually an undercover detective.
Wesley Evans, 39, and Jennifer Evans, 33, were sentenced this week to 15 and 10 years in prison, respectively, after they were convicted of soliciting sex from a minor over the Internet.
According to a police report, Detective Neil Spector with the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office was posing as a 15-year-old girl named Suzy in an Internet chatroom on Feb. 16 when he received a message from Wesley Evans. Spector is a member of the LEACH Task Force, which is a combined force of local, state and federal law enforcement officers who proactively investigate child pornography and child exploitation on the Internet.
Spector said Evans asked to exchange pictures with the detective's persona and sent the detective several photos, including a nude photo of himself.
According to the report, Spector continued to exchange messages with Evans for weeks, using a female officer to pose as the girl during brief phone calls. Evans repeatedly asked the detective's persona to come to Las Vegas, eventually sending an electronic plane ticket to fly the girl there from West Palm Beach.
Evans said he hoped the girl would just run away from home and come live with him in Nevada, writing, "the idea here is for you to escape without a trace."
According to the report, Evans said he planned to have a "sexual encounter" with the teen in a hotel when they met in Las Vegas. He told the detective's persona to pack a backpack and a duffel bag, and to specifically pack her bikinis.
In one Internet exchange, Evans told the detective's persona, "This is so dangerous for me. FL loves to nail guys like me. I saw Dateline."
Police said the plane ticket, which was set for March 13, was to take the girl from West Palm Beach to Texas, and then to Las Vegas. Spector, posing as the 15-year-old, told Evans that the girl would meet him in the airport in Nevada.
According to the report, Evans told the detective's persona that the teen should not speak with anyone at the airport, since "there are a lot of charming snakes in the world. A good rule of thumb is, the nicer the person, the more dangerous and/or deranged."
Police arrested Evans on March 13 while he was entering the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. Evans was carrying a digital camera and a bouquet of roses, as well as a key card to a hotel room in Las Vegas, police said.
Spector told WPBF News 25 that Evans never mentioned that he had a wife during the online conversations, and that he had planned to tell the girl after their first sexual encounter. Spector said the couple, who have a 14-year-old son together, made a home video together that they planned to show the girl revealing her "new family."
The 26-minute-long video, obtained exclusively by WPBF, shows Jennifer Evans introducing herself and giving a tour of the couple's 4-bedroom trailer home in Pahrump, Nevada, including the introduction of the couple's son, who Evans said was asleep in his room while they were taping the video.
In the video, Jennifer Evans said that she would not mind sharing her husband with the girl, and said that part of the reason was because she worked about 70 hours a week at a local Wal-Mart and was unable to satisfy her husband's "strong sexual appetite."
"I don't want to lose my man. I want to share my man. I'm OK with it. There's enough of Wes to go around, and I need help to make him happy," Evans said to the camera. "He needs more sex than I can give him all by myself."
The couple is currently being held in the St. Lucie County Jail.
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