Behind the Badge
Garden Grove PD sting nets arrests of three men suspected of seeking sex with minors
0The texts were firing back and forth. You’re OK that I’m 30? Yes. You OK that I’m 13? Yes. Just don’t tell anyone. That could get me into trouble. Taking a proactive approach to the exploding problem of sexual predators using the Internet to prey on minors for illicit hookups, the Garden Grove PD in late December held a sting familiar to viewers of the 2005-2007 Dateline NBC “To Catch a Predator” reality TV series. Cramped into a motel room, GGPD detectives, accompanied by federal agents and an O.C. sex crimes prosecutor, worked mobile phones and computers to engage in…
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