An executive with a global aviation consulting company has been accused of trying to have sex with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet who turned out to be an undercover Alexandria detective.
David L. Beckerman is the vice president of market intelligence for OAG Aviation Solutions, which provides airline companies around the world with market and travel analysis. The 41-year-old from Alexandria is often quoted in company releases such as one sent Monday describing worldwide growth in airline capacity.
Hours after the press release went out, Beckerman allegedly drove to a Dunkin’ Donuts in Alexandria to meet the teenage girl he thought he had been talking to through Yahoo Messenger since late July, court documents said. Instead, Beckerman was taken into custody. He is being held without bail until his Friday arraignment. There was no attorney listed for him in court records.
OAG declined to comment Wednesday.
On July 31, an Alexandria detective started chatting with Beckerman, telling him she was 13-year-old Jordan Stephens, the detective wrote in a sworn statement. Over the following months, Stephens had a birthday and Beckerman discussed her parents, her school uniform and classes. Eventually, the conversation turned sexual.
At one point, the detective swore, Beckerman wrote, “I was feeling a little guilty today … about how young you are and telling myself this is totally inappropriate.” He added, “When you’re 18, I can take you to St. Maarten or St. Barts and we’ll entwine on the beach.”
By Nov. 5, they were talking about meeting, the statement said. Beckerman reportedly wrote he could pick the girl up and take her to his house for “spaghetti and sex,” or maybe just play Monopoly, the detective wrote.
After he was arrested Monday, police searched Beckerman’s Alexandria home. Inside, they found a table set with a Scrabble board and two candles.
Beckerman also reportedly gave police a written statement, court documents said. In it he reportedly wrote, “I have a very rich and enjoyable life. I would like to restore that as much as possible and need to understand why I risked that richness in pursuit of something fleeting, dangerous and potentially harmful to an innocent minor.”
