Internet Predator Arrested in Van Buren
By: Bobbi Smith
Updated: July 3, 2012
Around 2pm Tuesday afternoon Van Buren Police arrested Mark Howard Mink for Internet Stalking of a child.
Officials say Mink arranged the meeting in an online chat room while speaking with who he thought was a 14-year-old girl, but was actually an investigator with the Van Buren Police Department.
Police say Mink had a cooler in his car with iced down bottles of wine coolers for the girl when he arrived.
Mark Mink was transported to the Crawford County Jail where he was booked on charges of Internet stalking of a child and held with a $7,500.00 bond.
