The dethroit man arrested because he recorded himself who attacked sexually who attacked the missing adolescence

A Detroit man in probation was arrested for sexually assaulted a missing teenage girl for months.

According to judicial documents, Devan Eric Cook is accused of bringing a disappeared teenage girl from home from Detroit, where she has sexually assaulted since she was 14 years old. He was 15 years old when he was found.

FBI finds your disappeared teenager

On January 19, 2025, FBI agents followed information about a 15 -year -old girl who has been missing from October 2024.

Based on the information they received from the witnesses, they think the missing teenager remained with a cook at a house in Redford.

When the FBI agents went to Redford’s house, they met Cook’s brother. Then he gave the phone number of a Cook agent to interview him.

The FBI agents interviewed Cook on the phone, where he told them he was in conditional freedom for illegal prison. During the interview, Cook told the agents in which the missing teenager remained, who was a Detroit house.

The authorities went to the house in Detroit the same day and found the teenager there. Was taken to the hospital for evaluation.

The 15 -year -old girl told a social worker at the hospital that she was with a man named Eric Pate while missing.

Authorities said the teenager voluntarily offered the FBI and password FBI agents. The teenager’s mother offered the agents permission to seek for evidence.

After further investigations days later, the FBI agents found that the teenager’s phone had more videos about her being sexually assaulted by a man. Some of the videos are dated to have been recorded in November 2024, when the girl was 14 years old.

FBI agents said most videos were recorded by the man. In some videos, the authorities said that the tattoo of the man at the top of his arm is visible.

How did the teenager meet the Devan Cook

On January 28, 2025, the 15-year-old girl told the FBI agents in an interview that she met Cook after ran away from home in October 2024. Cook was apparently near Alias ​​Eric Slope.

When the girl met Cook, he told him he could bring her back to his house so he could have sex with her. He went to stay with him at an apartment in Redford.

Eventually, she told Cook that she was 14 at the time, and a missing run, and her mother was looking for her. It seems that Cook was upset and told the girl he did not want to call the police, because he was a kidnapper in probation.

FBI confirms that Cook has an alias

Subsequently, FBI agents confirmed that Cook passed near Alias ​​Eric Slope, based on its reservation photography at the Michigan Corrections Department and a Facebook page for Eric Slope. Photos fit.

During an interview, the teenager showed two unmarked photos with Devan Cook and Eric Slope. She confirmed with the FBI agents that both photos were a kitchen.

The FBI agents also confirmed that the tattoo that was seen on the man in the videos found on the teen’s phone matches Cook’s tattoos.