Florida’s 2nd DCA says Police Sting entrapped Defendant
Jason DeMare went on an ADULT website and initiated contact with AN ADULT. For days, they chatted and flirted while he believed the woman was 18, but on the fourth day she told him she was 14. She was neither 14 nor 18 and she was not a flirty female but an undercover officer. Each time DeMare tried to steer the conversation away from sex, the officer tried to steer it back. Each time he said he was not interested in a sexual relationship with a minor, the officer kept cajoling him and calling him chicken.
Sound familiar? It’s pretty much the playbook for these “stings”/”scams” run by Florida police departments. When I first heard some members tell me this story, I thought “yeah right”, but when I heard the same story over, and over, and over and read the transcripts in Trey Gennette’s case, I couldn’t believe law enforcement would get away with this and just how often they used these tactics to bait and switch someone into a manufactured felony.
When I asked why they took the plea? it was always because they were threatened with decades in prison if they didn’t.
There have been a few brave souls who put their foot down and took their chances in court. One such brave soul is DeMare. You can read his decision here:
If your situation is similar… maybe we should coordinate victims of these scams and expose the law enforcement “stings” that entrapped them?
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My son had similar tactics in 2008 and subsicrently went to prison. He was approached in the Adult Club Chat room. He is legally deaf, and told the “female” same and gave her his cell number and e mail. She called him several nights and asked him to do sexual things and he refused. He got so tired he did them. Went to meet her and went to prison. This man had never been in a police staton before and was extremely afraid. He told them a story and they believed him and was prosicuted for it also. He was just trying to give them a story to let him go HO M E. He didn’t really hear the Miranda and knew what it meant. I lost two cars, my home, and he went to hell and back in prison. This is a man who is very talente with mechanics, worked on the Space Shuttle etc. When he was finally realeased after being threatened numerous times in prison, I had to purchase a Manuf. home in a low income section. Also his first probation officer wanted $250.00 a month. Where was he going to get that just be3ing realeased from prison. I pawned all my jewelry to meet the payments for about 6 months. The new Prob. officer reduced the amount. He was given 5 and 5/ At one point, they asked for 5 and 10/ I said in cout, what happened to the 5 and 5? then they relented. He is now out. But with the registration is followed, stuck with needlees, etc. Those are the things the probationers won’t talk about. This was a distinct case of Entrapment.
SIGN ME UP
same thing happened to me, but with another twist!
‘UNGENDERED MINOR’ is in my FDLE file….sort of like Mr. Ed, the Horse, Flipper, the dolphin…..Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse….etc
-Courtesy of another jackass, Elmer Fudd, aka GREEDY GRADY!
FICTION becomes law in Flori-duh!
There are currently no resources to help with these stings – they have put thousands of innocent men in prison, some actually for LIFE! Lifetime parole, lifetime registration. It’s a complete government money scam.
This is very real people, we need to get this word out. No lawyers are up to the task for fear of reprisal, the LE and prosecutors get funding per arrest! They are not going to stop until we stop them! All the while the police are parading innocent men in these stings as if they are keeping us all SAFE!!!! What? Keeping us safe from innocent men???
These are federally funded. They are required to make more arrests each funding cycle in order to be eligible for more funding.
This isn’t JUST the State, but your Federal Tax dollars at work.
To note, the US Code containing information on this has been changed:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/34/21112
It also no longer gives information on how the “awards”(monies granted) are given.
We need to de-fund agencies that create new crimes for people to commit.
Absolutely.
These big government agencies obviously have way, way too many resources. Just take a look at the Registry Hit Lists! Who ever dreamed that was acceptable in America?! Who are the people who think the Hit Lists are anything other than just harassing, idiotic, immoral, completely out-of-control, nonsense, nanny big government? Who are those people?! They aren’t Americans.
I’ll tell you what won’t work – leaving it to the law enforcement criminals (LECs) to ask them if we should have Hit Lists or not. They want just about ANYTHING that will bring them more $$$$$ and jobs for low lives. Their opinions are invalid. And frankly, it ought to be completely illegal to have these mob police agencies allowed to lobby for anything related to the big government incarceration business. They are always going to ask for more stupidity to get more customers. Always.
Take a look at any LEC budget, probably anywhere. They are way too big. Get involved and let’s take their slush fund from them. They’ve had way too much power forever and look at the stupidity that has resulted. Let’s force them to concentrate on actual crime prevention and solving. The extra nonsense must stop.
Interesting how you spelled “de-fund”. A lot of spell checkers will flag “defund”. But I think “defund” is okay. It is in numerous dictionaries and is in common usage. I’ll often use words that aren’t technically correct, but I like them and people understand them.
Amen!
Most lesbians, including those reading these comments or supporting this movement, would dispute this characterization of them.
And anyone who has undergone the type of sexual abuse described here, is not a worse person because of it. I certainly wouldn’t attack someone for being a survivor.
I do agree that one of the main reasons sheriffs engage in these stings, is that their departments receive funding to do so. Another reason is that they’re easier and cheaper than clearing actual abuse cases. But once we start claiming that they’re abuse victims themselves, and that that abuse is their motivation for doing this, we start to garner sympathy for THEIR cause, not ours.
Whoa – just read the comment you replied to and deleted it. Very ignorant.
I was one of victim i was deaf and i didn’t know who to ask for help and got my life railroad they did the same set me up and ruin my life it was just shame how my life is now because of their actions i was only 22 that time
Yea but who will actually help these ones without costing arm and leg a person is out now for 18 month just got a new probation officer and a family member from a different state called to p.o. she say she believes the female over him but she claim he was in a video chat with her kids plus p.o. said he needs to pay restitution he try to tell her they waived that no victim she said you must of had a victim so they are just a way for officers to keep putting in jail to collect the grants money most of people in fl are from the sting and 2 sheriffes said no one will ever stop them.
There was a retired deputy sheriff that came up here from Florida.
He was going to the same Church I was at the time.
There was a Bible study at my girlfriend’s house and he approached her and said emphatically, out-of -the-blue, how much he hated sex offenders.
About six months later someone went around her neighborhood and told all the people around her that I was a sex offender which included someone else who went to the same Church that lived close by.
Then that one who lived close to her told the Church leaders later, and to avoid any fall-out that was going to occur and DID occur (although I saw it coming beforehand) I left that Church.
All the evidence points that it was the retired deputy sheriff from Florida who dropped the first bomb in her neighborhood.
The LORD judge between him and me.
There was also a part-time cop that lived near her, but as I said, hearing about how much sheriffs in Florida hate people with sex offenses, and after what he said to my girlfriend, I believe it was the retired deputy sheriff from florida that caused all this grief and trauma I am still suffering from.
Bwahahahaha!! That’s a GIANT middle finger to the police!!! Hahahahahah I love it!!