"Nasty, nasty people:" 17 arrests after undercover child-predator sting

ladies and gentlemen thank you very much for being with us today i have two of my colleagues who i highly highly respect and director byrd from winter haven he is the director of public safety for not only the police department but the fire department if you find me calling him chief he said that's okay because he was the chief before he was the director and chief andy ray who i've worked with for many many years they epitomize what professional law enforcement is all about they joined us as well as members of the orlando police department and the orange county sheriff's office to do our operation operation child protector and once again child protector is very important to us it's very important to the community most importantly it's important to the children who we saved what you see on this board here and i'm going to go over this individually are deviants incredible deviants they travel from as far away as clewiston florida one even came from los angeles he was in the orlando area decided that he'd stop in and engage a 13 and 14 year old child in sex but much to the chagrin instead of meeting with children young children they were met by law enforcement officers from the police departments as well as the sheriff's office who were online undercover posing as children i'm going to introduce you to these folks for just a few minutes and give you some of the information that is pertinent to their deviant conduct these are nasty nasty nasty people and when we go through this understand that obviously we can't even use the words that they used we obviously can't show you the pictures in the video clips that they sent to what they thought were 13 year old little girls and little boys but we'll start with jonathan mcgrew jonathan works for disney he's a custodian he works at hollywood studios and he dates savannah lawrence guess what she's a custodian she works for disney hollywood studios so this pair showed up thinking that they would have a threesome with a 13 year old little girl the suspect sent videos of he and savannah having sex to what he thought was a 13 year old child in fact he said to the child we want to enjoy this opportunity we don't want to rush and then at the conclusion maybe even we'll cuddle a little bit are you kidding me that's how you're talking toward 13 year old children he went on to say that our fantasy is to play step-dad step-daughter step-mom teacher student uh maybe even shoplifter will we do a strip search so he gave all of these details before the two of them showed up well guess what savannah said i'm just a follower but she admitted and confessed that they came there to engage a child well if that's not enough disney employees how about another one this one is a lifeguard at disney animal kingdom lodge kenneth aquino he's 26. he left his girlfriend who was seven months pregnant with his child in order to go have sex with a child a thirteen-year-old he bragged about his prowess and how wonderful he was he's a navy veteran that's right he was working toward a dive team or a seal team or some kind of special ops job they did a background on him and found out that he had friends or affiliates that were gang members and they tossed him but that didn't stop him from showing up in his work clothes from disney in order to have sex he confessed and then we have juan guadalupe aurora he's a registered nurse for advent health care and celebration now don't you know that you want to wake up in a hospital with a registered nurse that uh was just visiting a 14 year old to have sex well juan was locked up and he didn't have the opportunity to do any kind of thing with a 14 year old and then there's philip nelson he traveled to meet a 14 year old girl he left his seven and eight-year-old children with his mother so he could show up to have sex with a child that's right he's employed by power town line construction and he confessed that he left his children with his mother so he could have sex did i mention our detectives that work this operation are simply the very best they're skilled in talking as if they're 13 and 14 year old children and they worked around the clock for a week in order to arrest 17 people so now would introduce you to carlos flores he is a store manager for starbucks i bet they're proud he's assigned to the orlando international airport he has a 13 year old female who he was pursuing and thought that he was going to engage in sex but he did not want to come inside the building he wanted the girl to meet him in his car because that was his fantasy to have sex with a child in the car now because of hipaa i won't tell you which one but i can tell you that one of the the people that we are talking about today was hiv positive did you hear what i'm telling you he's hiv positive he showed up to have unprotected sex with what he thought was a child now if that's not the worst of the worst i can't imagine how it gets any worse the guy is hiv positive let me say that again because you know you just can't believe it when you hear it the first time he's hiv positive he shows up to have what he thinks is going to be unprotected sex with a child with a little girl fortunately our detectives were there instead of a 13 year old child but guess what had it been a curious little girl as opposed to our very experienced detectives she would have been directly exposed to hiv this weekend and then there's thomas snyder he is a custodian there's something with custodians this operation but he works for valencia hills nursing and rehab center in lakeland he thought he was showing up to have sex with a 14 year old boy in fact he was at work when he was carrying on the conversations with the undercover operatives you can't make what make this up you can't make up what i'm about to tell you he says i like smelly feet did you hear that he likes smelly feet he wanted to smell the little boy's feet and then he wanted to play with his toes this dude right here five brain cells four aren't working all of these guys five brain cells four aren't working these are dangerous people he talked really really nasty during the undercover conversations which tells us that that was probably part of his fantasy or his sexual desire and then there's jeremiah davis from clewiston he came from clewiston he is a garbage truck driver that's what he does he hauls garbage to the dump where we hauled him to the jail he's also a army veteran and he thought he was going to show up for a fourteen-year-old girl and then there's david ring david rings not employed but he sent him videos doing nasty things to this child what he thought was a 14 year old girl he liked to talk nasty he had a lot of deviant comments that he made along the way he said his fantasy was to meet her in a pharmacy bathroom to engage her in sex this guy's got a problem the reality is they all have a lot of problems that they've created for themselves for violate by violating the law and we want to send them to prison we want to keep them away from little girls and little boys then there's jared justice all the way from los angeles california he showed up on the vacation but he only needed to buy a one-way ticket because he's not flying back to los angeles anytime soon he's married mrs justice did you hear that your married husband showed up from los angeles thinking he was going to have sex with a 13 year old little girl while you're in los angeles behaving and holding the house down his last name is justice that's what we're going to get justice for justice and our justice for justice we hope will be 10 or 15 years in prison the saint california you know there won't be a wide there won't be a wave and a smile and out the back door here oh he brought condoms and candy sour patch kids i don't think they came from los angeles he stopped at the convenience store there's giulio cedino jr he's a contractor he's from zephyr hills he's married he thought he was going to have sex with a 13 year old now all he did was transmit harmful materials he would not travel so he's married he talked about having sex with a 13 year old child but he tran he only trans transferred harmful materials what does that mean nasty photographs usually of himself or of some other deviant sexual acts i don't think his wife's going to be happy about this then we have leor inbar he delivers pizzas for dominoes out of orlando he thought he was going to have sex with a 14 year old child and he wanted to have a safe word for her well we have a safe word jail he's in jail he can't hurt her or anyone else he lived with his parents a lot of these folks live with their mom or live with their parents then there's joshua ortega he says he worked at the l house he lives with his mom he wanted to have sex with a 13 year old girl mom you need to have a talk with this dude he's your son he was living at home and he wants to have sex with a little girl you need to have a talk with him you need to tell him that he's going to prison for a long time the last one i'm going to speak about here is edward mcgaffigan he's from orlando he says he's a professional poker player he lost it didn't work well he doubled down and we trumped him he sent harmful material he thought it was a 14 year old girl so when we went to pick him up we actually showed him the chats you know what he said oh this is real bad no kidding it's real bad now you say to yourself self why didn't he travel he couldn't travel somebody stole his car so he just talked nasty and sent harmful material so at the end of the day this is just one more investigation of many that we have but the strength once again of our investigations are with the men and women of the police departments who work very very hard alongside of us to make this successful let me turn the podium first over to chief andy ray and then to director byrd for their comments thanks sheriff good afternoon just wanted to say thank you to the sheriff for his leadership on on operation on this particular operation operations of this sort operation child protector is another success obviously our concern is we all share this the concern and and that is for kids um we know it's parents and grandparents jobs to to look after their children to try to give them uh guidance and to protect them from things that are out there the web is a dangerous place uh there are lots of lots of places that uh that that people like this bad actors can get to children and it's uh it's important for them to understand that and to reinforce that with their kids there are lots of opportunities to to get in between that and so we want parents and grandparents to do that in addition to that it's our job to uh to help protect those kids from people who would prey on them and so we're always glad to work with the sheriff's office we we have a great relationship in polk county all the agencies here and anytime we can work together to to make the county a safer place especially for children we're going to do that so thanks for the opportunity to work with you sheriff and we look forward to the next time thank you sheriff first and foremost i think the message needs to be parents wake up pay attention these weren't actual children that were victimized here but these predators are out there don't forget that pay attention to that listen to this that's what these messages are for the second thing is it absolutely baffles me that we continue to do these things and we keep having results like this right here it's not going away again parents pay attention to the message they're not going away and the next thing i want to say is i appreciate the relationships in this county uh with our fellow agencies the sheriff's office i think you're going to have to go a long way actually i don't even think you'll be able to find one with relationships that we have in the county anywhere in this country like this we work together and i want to commend the detectives that put their heart and soul into this and you all need to remember something as well on these detectives they're dealing with these guys and all that nastiness that they're doing they got families at home they got children at home grandkids at home and they're having to deal with this nastiness and they're going to continue to do it and for that i appreciate all of y'all because i got grandkids that age and i appreciate that so sheriff thank you and we will continue to be a part of this and uh we'll keep putting people in jail if they want to keep doing this i have one other case that i need to talk about but are there any questions for the chief or for me before we get to that yes ma'am was content made via social media yes ma'am contact was made on several different social media sites and we don't tell which ones for obvious reasons because there will be other investigations on other days you know that's that's the downside of social media it's made the predators easier to get to the children and their online scouring for children so don't think that this was their first time and don't think that they haven't found some child in the past to attack but on this day in this time the detectives from orlando orange county sheriff's office winter haven police auburndale police and the sheriff's office stopped them and our goal is to send them to prison for a long time other questions check the pool seems to be getting smaller and you've done a ton of these in the course of years do you think some of these guys are finally getting the message you know you would like to think that the ones that weren't locked up maybe they've gotten the message some of them have gotten a little more difficult to arrest some of them just won't come to polk county any longer but my colleagues do these operations around the state and we partner up like we'll go help other jurisdictions in other parts of the state just as orlando and orange county came to help us this time with winter haven and auburndale who's there every time with us so at the end of the day when we started this it was not unusual as you said to arrest 30 or 40 at a time but 17 is the most we've gotten in a long time unfortunately so they don't go away and as you can see these are not kids these are not kids doing stupid stuff these are adults at least chronologically i'm not sure where they are mentally to do something like this but so are the difference in numbers i think that we are effective at i locating them there's a lot of these folks that are currently in prison from past operations there are a lot of them that are now designated sex offenders that may be out of prison but we watch and they can't legally have access to technology which that cuts down the population i think our colleagues from this around the state are arresting people but uh we're we are happy that we caught 17 but normally a good operation is anything around 8 to 10 now and we really arrested more than that i'm sorry there's any on this board i'm sorry we found one but they're there and they're online 24 7 looking for your child child to sexually better or worse are they themselves on their profiles or are they posing as others well they they do it different ways but no usually they just hit us up and and communicate but they like to get off of the social media and then chat or or move to a different platform so they may find us in one platform then they want to move to talk a lot of them like to talk they like to talk nasty they may move you to another platform and or through ever whichever social media then they start sending pictures of themself nude and themselves doing deviant acts or participating in deviant acts you can't imagine because normal people can't the things that they were doing and saying to what they thought were children yes ma'am well when when you think about it ask me again because i'm not going anyplace and if this if this one gets past you we'll have another operation just write it down and save it for the next one because it'll be applicable then yes ma'am so it sounds like you all posing as a child reached out to them or did anyone first reach out to the toad's child we we post and sometimes they post so we search the web and they're searching the web and then you meet what normally they go to childlike places where children would be and it may be game rooms it may be just where kids chat and then they start communication and it works from there absolutely first and foremost you may have seen some advertisements we've done through billboards we can't even get the cell phone providers to provide the cell phones with the child lock on their on their cell phone so we tell everybody to like the children's cell phone you've got to know who your children are talking to who they're communicating with there's several professional apps that you can as a parent get so if your child has a cell phone you can see who they're communicating with so you've got to be in charge of your child and i tell folks and i tell folks what i learned from my dad a long long time ago when he looked me in the eye as a young man and said son it's not my job to be your friend it's my job to be your parent and if i parent you right now when you grow up we'll be friends and my dad and i were best friends my entire adult life we weren't best friends all the time when i was a teenager but i tell parents be a parent be all up in your child's business know who their friends are know who and where they're communicating it's the only way to keep these folks away because they know how to talk kid they have charisma they have personality and it's frightening how convincing they can be yes ma'am i hope i'm not jumping the gun on this one but is this what the sheriff's office is working on with tim and the upcoming public service announcements um yes yes and and tim is working on a phase of this whereby we're trying to get parents and really we'd like internet company i mean cell phone companies just send the phone to your provider to be retailed with the child locks in place adults can unlock it you can go on and unlock it but just send it the data is something like 90 percent of all children with a cell phone don't have the child lock in place and it's a dangerous adult tool any other questions i want to talk for just a minute about a sexual predator a child sexual predator now it's separate from this investigation our detectives just did a remarkable job making the arrest of eric rowe let me tell you about eric rowe he's 32 years of age we have him charged with capital sexual battery of a child that he had access to he has been inappropriately touching this a this eight-year-old child he has been inappropriately touching this eight-year-old child since she was four years old and we have documented by his own admission that there has been at least 10 molestations during that period of time by his statements when it was discovered that he had actually sexually battered this child who is now eight years of age he made the statement that his conduct was animalistic i agree with that he said he's ashamed of himself i agree with that but it's a little too late so when you think that this guy was attacking a girl a baby from the time she was four until she was eight when it just came to our attention the other day and he actually made a statement that the victim would need psychological counseling then he said for what we did together not what we did together that baby will need psychological counseling for what you did to her he told the victim we got to keep it a secret it's our secret well it's no secret the most we can do with him legally is to lock him up for a capital felony hope that he's convicted and spends the rest of his life in prison but i want you to get a close look at a very dangerous deviant child predator this is what one looks like any questions okay thank you very much we'll see you the next time take care

Channel: FOX 13 Tampa Bay

Views: 1,374,304

Keywords: child sex sting, sheriff grady judd, polk county florida, sex bust, child predator bust, disney employees, undercover sting, to catch a predator

Id: ku85MuklfOo

Length: 30min 29sec (1829 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 03 2021

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[u/PmanMI08]

Fucken right.

[u/vee180]

The sheriff is amazing.

[u/Derpdude32_]

Fucking chad

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Makes me feel all gross inside how anyone can look at a child and feel anything but the desire to protect them.

[u/LongNectarine3]

Op I wanted you to know I fell asleep last night to this video on purpose. It gave me the feeling of comfort only a long term survivor would have towards something like this. A great deal of comfort that someone else feels as disgusted as I do.

[u/I-only-play-rubick]

“There’s something you should know..”

[u/chowur60]

I like this guy and what he and his team does. He's savage and awesome.

[u/Cerastese]

The sheriff of Polk County is a fuckin savage lmao