Florida law enforcement was handed an appropriate slap on the wrist when video evidence of their much-hyped “human trafficking” massage parlor stings was thrown out.
Yesterday, Palm Beach County Judge Leonard Hanser ruled that prosecutors cannot use surveillance video and other evidence in the prostitution solicitation case against Robert Kraft. Kraft sought to suppress the evidence obtained by police from the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, arguing that it violated his Fourth Amendment rights and Florida law.
Under the guise of investigating “human trafficking” police in Jupiter and other Florida cities set up hidden cameras in massage parlors and for weeks engaged in surveillance that was unnecessary and inappropriate, capturing hundreds of people in various states of undress. As it turned out, no (none, zip, zilch, nada) arrests were made for human trafficking.
“The fact that some totally innocent women and men had their entire lawful time spent in a massage room fully recorded and viewed intermittently by a detective-monitor is unacceptable,” Judge Hanser wrote.
Unfortunately, Robert Kraft and dozens of other men were shamed by this police operation, but fortunately for all that come after him, Kraft had the means and resources to fight back. It gave the world a glimpse into Florida’s shady practices of inventing police “operations” to create headlines.
In the end, millions of dollars of our taxpayer money was wasted and men were shamed for committing embarrassing misdemeanor offenses, but the biggest shame and embarrassment should be on the Florida Sheriffs departments.
This news thrills me down to my toenails! I could not be more pleased that the lazy police are called out for wasting money on a victimless “crime” such as this! Stupid
This clearly illustrates how law enforcement manufacturers crime and therefore “criminals” as in most “sex offenders” know perfectly!
Oh and YES, clearly shows that being backed by money can determine the outcome of a case!
Florida is a national joke and it’s a BAD joke!
I knew their surveillance was unconstitutional! So now it’s safe for us h0rny men to get a happy ending in a massage parlour? I’ve got a better idea. Why don’t we just come up with a dating app for registered citizens? I mean, there are nearly a million of us, well over five million if you add family, friends and supporters. A B&B app also would be helpful for traveling.
What? NO, You mean a man with money(Robert Kraft) got something that was going to hurt him thrown out so he didn’t end up on a list like the rest of us?(sense the sarcasm)
I mean no crap if any of us on the list had money like he did the list would be no longer.
LMAO, you see what money can do. When law enforcement break the law and you have the Patriots owner with money you get a win. Southeast Florida can’t beat Robert Kraft and the Dolphins can’t beat the Patriots ! I never was a Patriots fan but I am now.
That was very well written. Kudos to the judge for following the Fourth Amendment. Now let’s watch all the civil law suits against
LE! Thanks for sharing.
It’s about time Florida got slapped. They constantly are running “sting” operations to justify the existence of unnecessary efforts, these stings established an unlawful practice by sheriffs to grow these task forces and ask for additional funds in the name of public safety. The reality is “but if not for the efforts of law enforcement” there would have been no crime!
Stop this practice Governor DeSantis!
Let’s use our money for real public safety not this manufactured nonsenses.
My first thought on this went directly to mine and all the others who got caught up in the Craigslist and other cyber sex sting operations. Can not the same argument be applied in those? The sheriff’s depts CLEARLY violated the terms of use on those sites and apps because it makes you click and confirm that you are 18 or older to use them. So, shouldn’t anybody that uses the personal ad section in craigslist (back then), expect a reasonable amount of privacy and to expect that all other users are at least 18 or older? I never would’ve imagined after using craigslist for 5 years that any cops or detectives would be on there exploiting the website for their own gain. I just cant help but see the similarities here……and to top it all off, the detective who was talking with me and was the chief witness in my depo, is sitting in federal prison for life right now for molesting three 8 year old boys. I just dont see how mine, or anyone eises cases can still stand. Just wish a lawyer or group could step up and help us get some relief on this. All the stings are nothing more than scams to get money for these redneck inbred sheriffs in Florida. The state is full of corruption and it needs to all be exposed and taken down.
MJ: No kidding! The scumbag who was pretending to be catching predators on Craigslist was a child predator himself?? This is exactly what I’ve been saying for a long time, they put the focus on the wrong people to cover up for themselves and other actual predators. They are the the scumbags. They create these sex sting operations to make it look like they are addressing human trafficking and catching child predators, to cover up for the human traffickers who are paying them off, and to cover up for actual child predators (which likely includes the same human traffickers and sometimes even themselves). The bottom line is that it is all about money. They scam the government by pretending to be catching dangerous individuals, while they protect the real dangerous individuals who are paying them off to allow human trafficking to continue. Those accepting the payments and helping cover this up are dangerous individuals themselves. They are making money off the government, while at the same time making money off of those who pay them off to be protected.
The scum bags have to arrest someone to make it look like they are doing something about human trafficking and protecting children. So, they target vulnerable people on adult sites. This is a huge scam.
They are greedy bastards who don’t give a damn about anybody but themselves. It’s all about keeping the money coming. They will destroy as many lives as they have to, just to keep that money coming. The addiction to getting the money must be so powerful that they forget karma will eventually catch up to them, like it did with this scum bag.
They were not making any money off of this massage parlor. That’s why they went after them. I guess there was no human trafficker involved there, to pay off law enforcement, to leave them alone.
It’s time to put the focus on the criminals who are working in our system. Our system desperately needs to be cleaned up. It’s been way to easy for criminals to get away with their crimes by pretending to be good people who work in our system. It’s time to start holding them accountable for abusing our system, abusing people, and covering up real crime.
@aracely
you are no doubt correct! And yes, all of what I said is true. The detectives name is Charles McMullen. I had been out of prison for about 2 years and I was watching the news around the end of 2016, and I saw a story about an FDLE detective who had gotten arrested for molesting 8 year old boys. The name sounded familiar and something told me to go look at my legal paperwork from my case, and sure enough, there was his name on my deposition my lawyer did. He was listed as the ONLY witness against me. He was the one talking back and forth with me online in the craigslist sting. It took about a year and a half for his case and trial to go through, but he is finally locked up for life and his info is below:
Name: CHARLES CALVIN MCMULLEN
Register Number: 02455-122
Age: 51
Race: White
Sex: Male
Release Date: STATE PRIS
Located At: USP Terre Haute
And here is the link to his story:
https://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2018/07/01/ex-fdle-child-sex-investigator-found-guilty-child-sex-crimes/748984002/
Additionally, as you said, these stings are ALL ABOUT THE MONEY! And you so accurately stated that many of the so-called “law enforcement” in this country are nothing more than white collar criminals disguised as “good guys” to cover up the really bad stuff from the really bad guys all the while feeding a detention system that they set up that is constantly being fed and kept full to keep them rich. Isn’t that quite a nice little convenient system they have set up? And I REFUSE to believe that I will have to live with this the rest of my life and that there is nobody out there willing to take on our cause to rise up against this criminal cabal called “Florida” . It may just have to be “we the people” ourselves. But the part I haven’t figured out yet is how to fight back? Because you simply CANNOT fight back using THEIR legal system that is already rigged against you and expect to win any freedom or get any relief. Soooooo, another strategy has to be employed. To me it’s pretty simple, but getting people to go along with you and organize it and implement it is a little too difficult. But you have to “rise up” at some point and force the issue to get your freedom or you will constantly get screwed by these criminals in disguise.
And like you said, it’s all about money. Below is a link once again to the nice little grant money system that the Feds have bribed state sheriff’s offices with to give them the money to create these task forces you’re talking about and what they have to do to get the money. Read through all of it. It will make your stomach turn. To think that our fellow citizens have no problem screwing us over like this is very disturbing.
https://law.justia.com/codes/us/2013/title-42/chapter-154/subchapter-i/
Good post aracely. Good post.
I’ve always said bad things have to happen to the right people in order for anything to change. I hope no one jumped at a plea deal
@MJ
Thank you for sharing this information. This is good information to know.
I have met several people online (from Washington state and Florida) who have also been trapped in one of these evil traps or have a love one who has. I’m in Texas. My 22 year old son was trapped in one here. Cody Allen, the key witness, used against him bragged in court (with the vicious prosecutor’s help, of course) about how he’s ICAC trained and certified. They would not dare bring up the fact that he did not follow ICAC standards, and there is no way any defense attorney here is going to bring up anything like that either. They’re not even allowed to use entrapment as a defense. Nobody could ever give a reason for it, even after they agree that it was entrapment.
One attorney straight out said that “we cannot disrespect the police”.
The criminal defense attorneys here are in on this scam. We went through 4. They work very hard to cover up anything and everything that shows someone is not the child predator they have been made out to be and that they need him to be.
You would not believe the amount and level of dishonesty we dealt with. These people are really sick and twisted. It can not be any more obvious that they don’t give a damn about anybody but themselves, and they certainly don’t give a damn about protecting any victims or potential victims. It’s all self serving. It’s so insane!!
We were straight out told by one of the lawyers and a corrupt private investigator (used by defense attorneys) that there is no such thing as innocent until proven guilty. The private investigator, who likes to brag about her experience and great skills 🙄 told us that innocent people get convicted and sent to prison all the time. It’s a very normal thing. Then she treated us like we were stupid for not knowing that or believing it. Instead of doing job to help the case, she did the exact opposite, and wanted to force us to believe that’s just the way it has to be. She seemed very mentally unstable too. She would have anger outbursts, yell, and attack when she couldn’t convince me of what she wanted (what they needed). Why it was so personal to her, I don’t know! She certainly worked hard, lied, and used a lot of gaslighting to get me to shut up about everything and just accept what they needed and wanted.
These people here are so sick and twisted, dealing with them felt like being in the twilight zone or something.
I’d love to talk more with you. Feel free to email me: [email protected]
Myself and several other people I keep in contact with are working to bring public awareness about this scam and scumbags working in our system.
It is difficult to get people to pay more attention to this topic because it is very easy for law enforcement and those working in our system to easily fool the public, even if their work is dishonest, unethical, not protecting real victims, actually protecting real criminals, and doing it all for self serving purposes, with money being their main priority.
I’m still in shock about everything I have found out about and figured out after this incredibly scary experience. There is just too much that shows they are hiding something big, and I really think there is more to it than just scamming the government. This was very obviously very personal to them.
There is plenty known here to know that if police really want to address the human sex trafficking problem, they know exactly where to look. They are not going to mess with that business because there is too much money involved. So, they have to create crime to make it look like they are addressing the problem. They are self serving scumbags who need to be exposed.
I’m sure Midland is not the only place where police are covering up the actual human sex trafficking business.