Wisconsin Man Charged With Grooming, Traveling To Meet A Child

BOLINGBROOK, IL — A Wisconsin man has been charged with grooming and traveling to meet a child after he traveled to Bolingbrook to meet a 15-year-old girl and physically assaulted her, according to Bolingbrook Police.

Irvin Ivan Saucedo-Guardado, of Racine, Wisconsin, was brought back to Illinois on Tuesday is being detained at the Will County Adult Detention Facility. Saucedo-Guardado has been charged with traveling to meet a child (Class 3 felony), grooming (Class 4 felony), and criminal sexual abuse (Class A Misdemeanor).

At 8:44 a.m. Tuesday, Bolingbrook officers responded to a welfare check for a 15-year-old girl on South Bolingbrook Drive. Police said the investigation revealed that the girl was picked up on Fernwood Drive by Saucedo-Guardado, 20, who the girl knew through previous communication on social media.

The two traveled together in a vehicle to the 100 block of South Bolingbrook Drive, where the girl got out of the car after being physically assaulted by the Saucedo-Guardado, according to police.

Officers were able to get a license plate from Saucedo-Guardado's vehicle using area license plate readers and witness statements, police said. This information was broadcast via the Illinois State Police Emergency Radio Network, and Saucedo-Guardado was later stopped by the Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin Police Department and taken into custody.