A California man is accused of offering to pay to spend the night with an 11-year-old girl in a Fort Wayne hotel. Travis Wiley, 36, of Vacaville, Calif., was preliminarily charged Thursday with three felonies:FORT WAYNE – Michael Len Plumadore, formally charged with murder in the death of 9-year-old Aliahna Lemmon, pleaded not guilty at an initial hearing this morning.
Plumadore, in a striped jail jumpsuit, was silent as media shouted questions at him as he left the Allen County Courthouse.
A trial date for Plumadore will be set Jan. 18. Another pretrial hearing is scheduled for Feb. 27.
Plumadore is also charged with abuse of a corpse and moving a body from the scene of a suspicious or violent death.
He was being held without bail. A public defender has been appointed.
No decision has been reached by prosecutors on whether to seek the death penalty in the case, which remains under investigation.
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