Category Archive for : ‘STINGS’

By WHIO Staff

DAYTON — A man previously convicted for sex crimes involving a juvenile in 2016 is facing charges after police say he had sex with a 14-year-old girl he’d been communicating with on social media.

Gerald Pendergrass III, 28, of Dayton, was indicted on unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, importuning and seven counts of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, according to court records.

Police said Pendergrass met with a 14-year-old girl at an address on Almond Avenue in Dayton between May 1 and Aug. 9.

“The juvenile invited Gerald Pendergrass III

A St. Johns County teacher is accused of using the internet to entice a 14-year-old child to engage in sexual activity.

Matthew Christopher Yates, 27, of Hastings, was an eighth-grade teacher at Veritas Classical School, a classical Christian school in St. Augustine that teaches kindergarten through 10th grade. He was arrested after an FBI agent posed as a 14-year-old girl online.

The agent responded Feb. 11 to a notice posted on social media by a user who went by the name “English teacher,” according to federal court documents. The supposed child told

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – More than one hundred people, including three Disney employees, were arrested in a massive sex sting in Polk County.

Called “Operation March Sadness 2,” the six day undercover operation focused on human trafficking and prostitution.

Undercover detectives communicated online with the suspects and arranged for a meetup at a location where they were arrested after their arrival, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office which conducted the operation.

Among the 108 arrests made, the oldest person was 67-year old Derek Collins who showed up to a residence drinking Ensure, the

A Bullitt County man is facing 42 charges related to child pornography after he was arrested Wednesday by the Kentucky State Police Electronic Crime Branch.

Richard D. Metzroth, 49, of Shepherdsville, was booked into the Bullitt County Detention Center on charges related to child sexual abuse material.

Metzroth was arrested as the result of an undercover Internet Crimes Against Children investigation, according to a KSP news release. The KSP Electronic Crime Branch began the investigation after discovering the suspect reportedly sharing images of child sexual exploitation online.

The investigation resulted in the execution

United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with the assistance of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC), South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), Sioux Falls Police Department, Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office, South Dakota Highway Patrol, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a joint online sex crimes operation that ran from March 6, 2022, through March 10, 2022.

As a result, the following five men were arrested:

Kent Mews, age 55, Sioux Falls, SD – Attempted Enticement

Two Toledo men have been indicted – again — for rape and importuning.

A Wood County grand jury on Wednesday indicted Emiliano Mendoza, 28, Bowling Green, for compelling prostitution, a third-degree felony.

On Oct. 7, he is accused of knowingly encouraging or soliciting a sexual activity for hire with a 16-year-old.

John Eric Gebrosky, 34, of Toledo and currently in jail, was indicted for rape, a first-degree felony, and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, a fourth-degree felony.

From May 1-Sept. 1, 2012, he is accused of engaging in sexual conduct with a 14-year-old