Category Archive for : ‘STINGS’

March 31, 2021
ABC 15

MESA, AZ — The Mesa Police Department says six men were arrested during a recent child sex crimes undercover operation.
Mesa police say they partnered with Homeland Security Investigations and the Attorney General’s Office during “Operation Leather Mitt,” which targeted child sex crime offenders and human trafficking.
Officers tracked websites commonly used by suspects looking for illegal sex acts, specifically involving children. The suspects solicited and or brokered deals with undercover officers in each case and were eventually arrested.
The six men arrested in this operation were Jonathan Techur, Douglas

March 31, 2021
Craig Shoup
The News Messenger

FREMONT – Dads Against Predators brought a serious issue into the spotlight when its members posed as teens to set up sexual encounters with men around Sandusky County.
After several months, the group confronted around 40 men in the Fremont and Sandusky County area before moving on to Cleveland and as far west as Denver.
In total, the group — which is aimed at exposing people looking to have sex with minors — has confronted around 100 men and some women in an attempt to make their

March 31, 2021
Jim Monk
KVRR

FARGO (KVRR) – A Moorhead man who had been facing sex crime-related charges in Fargo is now facing federal charges.
Forty-six-year-old James Van Raden is charged in U.S. District Court with coercion and enticement.
Federal court documents say in December, 2019, Van Raden responded to an ad from an undercover West Fargo police detective who acted as a father looking for a tutor for his 10-year-old daughter.
Van Raden said he had a “very taboo mind” and admitted to liking bestiality and underage children.
According to the affidavit, Van Raden agreed

February 21, 2021
Audrey Conklin
Fox News

The Phoenix Police Department, in partnership with other Arizona authorities, on Friday announced 37 arrests in connection to human trafficking and sex crimes.
Undercover police placed ads on websites commonly sought out by suspects seeking illegal sex acts with children as part of an investigation dubbed Operation Broken Hearts.
The probe targeted “sexual predators engaged in child sex crimes and human trafficking,” Phoenix police wrote in a Friday Facebook post.
Suspects “solicited and/or brokered deals for various sex acts and were subsequently arrested,” police said.
Police told Fox News that

February 17, 2021
Erin Vogt
NJ 101.5

Authorities in South Jersey have arrested another fifteen people in a long-spanning crackdown on child pornography and predatory behavior, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced Wednesday.
Among those rounded up in the second phase of “Operation Safe Quarantine”:
• A 30-year-old youth pastor accused of blackmailing boys online into recording sexual videos of themselves;
• A 40-year-old man charged with secretly recorded a nude underage girl;
• And a 72 year-old man who had child sexual abuse material, including images of infants and toddlers, according to Coffina.
A 35-year-old suspect had arranged to meet

February 11, 2021
Kenneth Garger
Fox News

A Stanford pediatrician was arrested for allegedly sending pornographic images to an underage girl and trying to have sex with her, police announced Tuesday.
Dr. Dylan O’Connor, 33, who practices at Stanford’s Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., was busted last Friday in a sting operation in Redwood City, according to police.
Redwood City police started investigating O’Connor after they received a tip from another law enforcement agency unit that monitors the illegal exchange of images involving children.
During their investigation, they discovered pornographic images allegedly sent