Undercover investigators using text messages arranged to meet with a Loveland couple claiming to seek sex with a child, but contact revealed the two conspired to rob the pedophile and kidnap his daughter, according to their arrest affidavits.
Dustin Canup, 20, and Sareena Morrison, 18, were arrested Friday at the Hi-Way Motel in Loveland, where they’d planned to meet a what they thought was a man and his 6-year-old daughter to perform sex acts. Loveland Police detectives, who’d rented the room after finding the Morrison through a citizen’s tip, found handcuffs and a 12 inch knife on Canup.
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“Morrison and Canup admitted to planning to meet (men found through a pornographic website) and extort them for money or take their money by force if necessary when they met,” according to the affidavits. “(The two) admitted that they were planning on kidnapping this 6-year-old girl from Loveland, keeping her, and raising her as their own daughter.”
The couple told police Canup had lost his job, they were seeking money, and they had no intention of having sex with children. The tipster had reported Morrison’s cell phone number to police because it was connected with someone claiming online to be a 15-year-old girl offering herself for sex. Police connected the number to Morrison and found a school photo of her through Thompson Valley School records, according to the affidavits.
The couple was arrested after knocking on the door to the detectives’ motel room, and they waived their Miranda rights and agreed to talk with police. They said they would monitor the pornographic website to find men claiming a desire for Morrison to engage in sex acts with children, offering money for her to also do sex acts with them, according to the affidavits.
The couple also admitted they had set up other meetings, including one in Englewood, to extort or rob another man who said he’d pay Morrison $650 for one night of sex with her.
Loveland police worked with the Colorado Springs Police Deparment Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to begin the undercover conversations.
Canup and Morrison were booked into Larimer County Jail on possible charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, extortion and robbery. Neither has a previous criminal record, according to Colorado court records.
Canup is being held on $100,000 bond, and Morrison is being held on a $75,000 bond.
