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Man Says Bieber's Brainwaves Told Him To Check Out Boys At High School Swim Meet

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Jan 14, 2013 5:40PM

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Lawrence Adamczyk / Riverside Police Department
A Rockford man was arrested at a high school swim meet, and when asked why he was there, he said "received a brainwave message" from Justin Bieber telling him to go see the kids. The man later admitted to masturbating at the swim meet.

Riverside Police were called to the Riverside Brookfield High School on Saturday after security staff confronted Lawrence E. Adamczyk, 49, in an off-limits hallway during a boys swim meet. Police approached Adamczyk in the bleachers and asked for identification. At first he claimed he had kids in the competition, but he refused to tell him the names of the children and his driver's license showed he was not from the area.

Police escorted him from the area, and that's when things get really weird. Adamczyk told police that he had taken the train from Chicago to Riverside to go to the Brookfield Zoo, where he said he planned to "look for young boys to have sex with." As he passed the high school, Bieber's brainwaves sent him to the school instead.

The Riverside Police Department writes:

While in police custody, Mr. Adamczyk stated that he intended on looking for a boy who would have perform a sex act with him. He went on went to say that he had, in fact, had been masturbating while watching the boys swimming event before police arrived. Mr. Adamczyk made several other intensely sexual statements involving young boys to Riverside Police investigators that are simply too graphic to include in a public statement. No contact was made with any student and the suspect was not armed.

Adamczyk has been charged with one count of criminal trespass and one count of disorderly conduct, and police say they will request he be held without bond.

"Mr. Adamczyk has several prior arrests including an indication on his current parole status that he had prior sex offenses," Riverside Police Chief Thomas Weitzel stated. Adamczyk was on electronic monitoring and on parole for committing "a sex act at a fitness center" in St. Charles, Ill., in 2011. He was arrested for similar crimes at a high school in Rockford in 2009 and at Northern Illinois University in 2005.

“I cannot understand how this individual was not required to register as a sex offender," Weitzel said.