Man Accused In Rankin Luring Hopes Surveillance Will Prove Innocence

One of two men accused of an attempting luring in Rankin last summer hopes surveillance video from that night will clear his name.

Timothy Rogers, 28, and Shane Dockstader, 35, both from upstate New York, were the subject of a citywide manhunt in July when two 11-year-old girls said they tried luring them into a pickup truck in Rankin's Hawkins Village.

According to investigators, Dockstader was the passenger in the car and asked the girls if they "wanted to play."

Rogers' attorney said his client didn't say anything to the girls, which is why he should have never been charged.

"He's totally innocent. He did nothing wrong and I don't think in the commonwealth he should be held criminally liable for the acts of a passenger of a car," said defense attorney Frank Walker. "He didn't hear what the passenger was saying. He didn't know what the passenger was saying. He was just driving."

Rogers and Dockstader told detectives that they were at a strip club that evening and went to the area to purchase cocaine and the girls simply misunderstood what was said.

Walker said he will rely heavily on surveillance video to clear his client.

"I got some surveillance videos we want to get and the district attorney, they're going to turn over their videos to us," said Walker.

Rogers and Dockstader are scheduled to go to trial in Feb. 2012.

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