Category Archives: Traveling to Meet a Minor

Plant City, FL – Authorities arrested eight men this weekend for allegedly traveling to meet minors for sex. Officials with the Plant City Police Department, Polk County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement completed an undercover operation over the weekend where they pretended to be minors, usually 14 or 15 years old. [...]

An undercover child-sex operation conducted by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office resulted in the arrest of 31 men allegedly looking to have sex with children they contacted online. Police claim one of the men arrested is a soldier with the Florida National Guard from Lakeland who traveled to Orange County with the hopes of having [...]

Whittel & Melton 1-866-608-5529 – Florida Sex Crimes Attorneys The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that they arrested 23 men in an undercover sex sting targeting people using the Internet to meet children for sex. A doctor and a U.S. Army reservist were two of the men arrested in the five-day undercover sting. Police claim [...]

Whittel & Melton 1-866-608-5LAW (5529) – Florida Sex Crimes Attorneys On Friday, federal prosecutors announced they would continue handling the prosecution of three men accused of traveling to Bay County to engage in sex with minors. The trio was arrested in June along with nine other men in a sting operation conducted by the Bay County [...]

Whittel & Melton Orlando 1-866-608-5LAW (5529) – Florida Sex Crimes Attorneys A 39-year-old former luxury suite manager for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers has been sentenced to just over 10 years in prison for arranging to have sex with a 14-year-old Clermont girl. The man was one of 33 people arrested in an undercover sex sting last [...]

Whittel & Melton Orlando 1-866-608-5LAW (5529) – Florida Sex Crimes Attorneys A 46-year-old teacher at a Winter Park Christian school, and an Episcopalian priest assisting a church in Winter Springs and the father of two children was arrested Friday after he allegedly went to meet what he believed was a minor for sex. Deputies claim the [...]

Whittel & Melton, LLC 1-866-608-5LAW (5529) – Florida Sex Crimes Attorneys A 55-year-old Jacksonville man was sentenced to 45 months in state prison and eight years of sex offender probation Wednesday following an ongoing investigation by multiple Northeast Florida agencies into online criminals targeting children The man was arrested April 29, 2011 during an undercover child [...]

Whittel & Melton, LLC 1-866-608-5LAW (5529) – Florida Sex Crimes Attorneys The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office recently arrested 12 people on charges of traveling to have sex with a minor. The so-called Spring Cleaning operation involved undercover officials posing online as minors or as parents or guardians of children. The sting started March 19 and ended [...]

Whittel & Melton, LLC 1-866-608-5LAW (5529) – Florida Sex Crimes Attorneys A 39-year-old former luxury suite coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was found guilty of arranging to have sex with a child Thursday. He was arrested last summer in a vacant Clermont home stemming from an undercover sex sting operation in Lake County. The man [...]

Whittel & Melton, LLC 352-264-7800 – Florida Sex Crimes Attorneys A joint undercover investigation conducted by the Gainesville Police Department and the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office dubbed the name Operation Tail Feather resulted in the arrests of 21 men charged with soliciting minors online. According to the Sheriff’s spokesman, undercover deputies used Craigslist, Plenty of Fish [...]