Just three weeks ago, Jeffrey Thomas Meray made a stop in Springfield Township.
The 32-year-old parked in the Davisburg Market parking lot on Dixie Highway and honked the horn to get several 12-year-old girls to look his way as he videotaped their reactions to seeing him naked, on Saturday, Sept. 27.
Now, Meray sits in jail on four charges of similar acts, with at least eight other possible charges pending, Sgt. Dirk Feneley of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department in Independence Township said.
The alleged victims are still being contacted, he said, but similar alleged incidences happened in Waterford, Rochester Hills, Highland and Farmington Hills.
“Once it hit the papers in early October, I had a girl call me who said the description of the man and vehicle matched an incident that occurred to her back in April,” Feneley said. “She gave a license plate number.”
The Fugitive Apprehension Team then did surveillance on Meray for a period of time, watching him take off the license plate to his car, undress and drive through subdivisions and business parking lots. They arrested him on Thursday, Oct. 16 on Elizabeth Lake Road in Waterford committing a similar act.
Meray, who is father to a 10-year-old boy and an employee in the shipping and receiving department at Daimler Chrysler, is being charged as a sexual delinquent person, a penalty that could cost a day to life behind bars. He is currently under a $400,000 bond.
He was arraigned at district courts in Clarkston and Waterford on Friday, Oct. 17, and in Rochester on Monday, Oct. 20. Not guilty pleas were entered on the four charges.
Preliminary exams are set for Wednesday, Oct. 22 in Waterford, Friday, Oct. 24 in Clarkston, and Tuesday, Oct. 28 in Rochester.
The charges stem from incidents on April 4, when Meray exposed himself and performed a sex act in his van in front of three women at a restaurant parking lot in Rochester Hills; on Aug. 31 when he videotaped a 15-year-old girl’s reaction to seeing him naked in White Lake; on Sept. 27 in Springfield Township; and on Oct. 16 when he was arrested.
“What he became was a predator searching out females, preparing what he was doing, frequenting shopping centers and drug stores where he knew female victims would be. That’s what is so alarming,” Feneley said.