Operation ‘Deviant Desire’ – another Central Florida “Sting Operation”
Another Central Florida County is creating headlines and publicly patting themselves on the back for another “sex offender sting operation” (this one dubbed ‘Deviant Desire’) that arrested 11 people who would likely not have engaged with a minor for sex if not for the efforts of the police, who throw out ads on adult sites and then change the age of the person to a minor in order to charge people of sex offenses.
You can watch a video of the arrests plus the press conference from this link:
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This sting was brought to county residents by the same high sheriff who failed to protect real children from a real danger.
https://www.wesh.com/article/officials-intoxicated-man-with-pocket-knife-sits-down-in-port-orange-classroom-to-test-security/29310277
Seems like very clear entrapment to me. This is exactly the equivalent of a person who goes out for beer and a cop shows up and says, “hey, forget that, I have cocaine, want it?” The person keeps saying they are looking for beer and the cops keep offering cocaine. Clear entrapment. The person is looking for something legal and the cops are offering something illegal. Same thing if a person went to an ATM and a cop was hanging out there and said, “forget that, let’s rob the bank.” Entrapment.
I also have to think that these law enforcement agencies have way too much money and other resources. They would not be doing this type of “work” and creating “crimes” if there were any actual real crimes to try to prevent or solve. So there must not be much actual crime and they’ve therefore got too many people available to work. They have too many people on payroll.
I would encourage everyone to join groups that work hard to limit the money and other resources of these criminal law enforcement agencies. THAT is a great goal always no matter. We all know that these big government employees are overpaid. So let’s work hard to push their salaries, benefits, etc. down. We are the taxpayers who pay them. Join groups to limit their resources and put extreme oversight onto them. They are obviously out of control. Let’s control them and vote for politicians that will do the same.
For those of us not in the know, please list some of these “groups” that you speak of.
I may be interested in looking into them.
Sorry Will Allen, I’m a convicted felon. My right to vote was stolen at the same moment when my right to own a firearm was and at the same moment when i lost my right to due process because a federal agent committed perjury at my trial. Nobody in LE cared then, and they dont care now.
Bill, are you aware that the Constitution of the United States says NOTHING about a felony conviction taking away your right to own a firearm? The only thing the Constitution mentions in regards to not being able to own a firearm is an act of TREASON against your country. A felony can be something as harmless as trying to fudge your taxes. How does that make a person “dangerous” to not be able to own a gun? It doesn’t. This idea of the word “felon” meaning “dangerous” needs to be challenged and the actual Constitution wording needs to be addressed. We should be able to protect ourselves like anyone else can.
This sheriff is something else. Once again, listen to ALL THE AGENCIES that were involved. They will ALL get a piece of that pie in terms of the grant money. And the sheriff has no right to call these men “scumbags” when they have only been arrested and not had their day in court yet and are technically still innocent until proven otherwise. Just shows you the arrogance of the people that are involved in the criminal justice system. And I can tell you, they are ALL like this. Arrogant and cocky and narcissistic. Looks like they are on the prowl again. So everyone be careful online and on the apps.
Shitwood’s giving Grady Judd a run for his money, it looks like.
Grady Judd must be foaming with anger. ” How dare they try to copy or top me !! “.
Halloween is right around the corner. I’m sure Judd will have something special cooking up.
It’s no longer about saving so called “children.” It’s now also about saving so called “child-like” mannequins and dolls in Floriduh as the new criminal law prohibiting simple possession is in effect as of today. So, now Chitwood, Judd, and their ilk will have make up other strings to bust people for fictional crimes.
https://wjno.iheart.com/featured/florida-news/content/2019-09-30-child-like-sex-dolls-no-longer-legal-in-florida/
gotta keep the system running and what’s better than someone they knows not gonna be able to obtain proper Defence and they can feed off for life lol
On the one hand, it seems these guys would have done the deed with the underage people if they really existed. On the other hand, there was no crime because there is NO victim.
Having said that, I once argued that with my defense attorney and his answer shocked me. He compared it to terrorist who talk to the FBI about blowing up a building not knowing they are talking to cops. So like this scenario they both can be charged with conspiracy to commit a crime. ?
My thoughts? I read all these stories and they are charged with Traveling to meet a minor for sex. Again I do not condone that behavior but there was no real victim. They traveled to have sex with a cop pretending to be a minor. C’est La Vie
Yeah conspiracy is a broad brush the feds love to paint with. State not so much, but they will play the same scare tactics and they will be registered soon.
@ Cherokee,
The bar necessary to pass the subjective entrapment hurdle is unreasonably high in Florida.
The stings are not subjecting random Americans to entrapment necessarily. Objective Entrapment? Most certainly.
Do a public records search for any given county in Florida for violations of F.S. 847.0135(4) , also known as Traveling to Meet a Minor and you find that those that are committed WITHOUT the Law Enforcement stings is minimal. As low as one per year. Those resulting from stings is absurdly high. Combine that with 42 USC 17616 (https://law.onecle.com/uscode/42/17616.html) and the Objective becomes more clear.
A question to ask yourself regarding these people who have been/will be caught up in these operations is… would they have even considered doing anything of an illicit nature with a minor had the LEO not encouraged them ( repeatedly, sometimes aggressively) to do so?
Second question, how do you even know those arrested truly had intentions of doing anything with a minor? I know what the arrest papers and charges say but how true is it? Especially knowing that these stings didn’t exist before Federal funds and the need to raise the numbers in order to continue receiving grant money?
Just sayin…
Excellent Point.
I was neither sticking up for those caught nor judging them. I do not know what their thoughts or intentions were or what the officers said or did to entice them. I was just making a general chain of thought to do just what you did, make a line of conversations, communications with each other and share our thoughts on the matter.
If I guy is just walking down the street to get his childs baby formula and an undercover cop steps out and says ” Hey buddy want to buy some weed?” if the guy says sure, he gets arrested but that is entrapment. The guy agreed to buy the weed but it was not his idea until he was tricked into the enticement and the same thing may have happened with these men but we may never know all the facts. My point has always been is there is a lot of real crime going on that that manpower could be used for.
While the sting was going on, there were ( in theory ) homes being broken into, robberies taking place, and a kid getting kidnapped all of which went unsolved because there were not enough patrol or responding officers because they were all playing undercover detective.