Preliminary exam set for former deputy charged with felony
A former Oakland County Sheriff’s deputy accused of trying to arrange a meet-up for sex with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl
— but wasn’t — is scheduled to have a preliminary exam in
50th District Court on March 30.
Jared Salisbury,
33, is charged with accosting a child for immoral purposes and faces up to four years in prison if convicted.
At the preliminary exam, Judge Ronda Gross will be presented with evidence and and then determine if there’s probable cause for the case to advance to Oakland County Circuit Court for possible trial.
The case against Salisbury unfolded when Oakland County Sheriff’s officials were alerted to his alleged criminal activity by a resident who reported seeing a social media post in which a man — later identified as Salisbury — attempted to arrange a meeting with someone he believed to be a 15-yearold girl. Detectives linked the social media chat to Salisbury, an Oakland County Jail probationary employee. He was fired on Sept. 6 of last year.
The message exchanges were reportedly with a Pontiac man who uses a messaging app in his attempt to catch child predators.
At a court hearing last October, Salisbury’s attorney John Freeman noted that Salisbury wasn’t caught communicating with a child but rather a “full grown man who’s a self-proclaimed vigilante who is using this and other instances as a mechanism to make money.”
Freeman also said there will be “a factual case in terms of who initiated the communication, particularly the inappropriate communication.”
Salisbury is out of jail on personal bond.