Arlington Heights Man Accused Of Planning Sex With Child In Lake Forest Indicted

LAKE FOREST, IL — A Lake County grand jury this week indicted an Arlington Heights man on four felony counts stemming from his arrest last month in Lake Forest.

Authorities said he told an undercover officer posing as a 15-year-old girl that he planned to have sex with her before traveling to Lake Forest, where he was met by police.

David Randon, 65, has been charged with two counts of indecent solicitation of a minor with the intent to commit aggravated sexual abuse and two counts of traveling to meet a child for the purpose of committing a sex offense, records show.

Both are class 3 felonies punishable by sentences from probation to 10 years in state prison.

The charges are the result of an investigation by the two Lake Forest police officers assigned to the Illinois attorney general's Internet Crimes Against Children task force, with help from Lake Forest police detectives and other officers, according to Chief Karl Waldorf.

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Local members of the task force were monitoring a social media app that allows people in the same geographic area to communicate relatively anonymously, according to the chief.

Police learned Randon was trying to have online conversations with children, and one investigator began posing as a 15-year-old girl in late April.

As the conversation progressed, Randon asked to meet up with the person he believed was a girl with plans of "committing a sexual act," police said.

The undercover officers set up a meeting at a public park in a residential neighborhood of Lake Forest, according to police.

Prosecutors reportedly said Randon discussed the sex acts he would carry out and brought alcohol and condoms to the meeting with the officer who he believed was a teenage girl.

Randon was arrested shortly before 11 p.m. on May 5. Once in custody, he confessed to the offenses, police reported.

After Lake County Associate Judge Janelle Christensen set the cash portion of his bail at $50,000, Randon bonded out on May 13.

Patch requested a comment on his behalf from the private defense attorney listed in court records as representing him.

A four-count indictment against Randon was returned on Wednesday, and he is due in court to be arraigned on June 29.