Nicholas Cocos

Cocos' Riverside Mugshot

**Nicholas Cocos** was an unaired suspected predator featured in the Riverside, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

Between January 4th and January 8, 2006, Cocos, who was 25 years of age, started a chat with a decoy named "Beth", whom he thought was a twelve year old girl. At first, Cocos engaged the decoy in conversation about movies, pizza, and sweatpants. However, he quickly changed the subject to kissing and declared that he "like[d] it." He enquired as to the girl's virginity. On the last day of the sting, he called the girl and drove to the sting house.

Cocos enters the sting house wearing a Donald Duck shirt and necklace. When Chris Hansen questioned Cocos, Cocos lies and said he was named Chris and eighteen years old. He also makes up information about the decoy's age, claiming she was seventeen. Unknown to Chris, he is holding the wrong chatlog, and incorrectly stated that girl's age was thirteen. After getting the correct chatlog, Chris tells Cocos the girl is twelve and that he knew he was lying about not wanting sex with the her. Chris later asks Coco's on what the lesson was. Cocos seemed to think that the takeaway from his arrest should be that adults should be cautious to avoid internet ruses rather than that they should not entice children online. His interview was not included in the original Riverside, California broadcast, but was later made available in full along with numerous additional interviews. After Chris confronted Cocos, he was taken into custody. He was placed alongside fellow child predator Jerry Wayne Martin-Kosis in a trailer parked next to the sting house by sheriff's deputies. According to Lieutenant Chad Bianco, he was instructed to keep silent so that they could make more arrests.

## Behind the scenes

Cocos was granted bail and was released. Later that year, he was arrested in a raid for operating an illegal credit card business, and a submachine gun was discovered in his possession. Cocos was sentenced to a year in prison for those crimes. He was later convicted of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 and was ultimitley sentenced to 18 months in prison in February 2008. Later that year, after serving the majority of his sex crime term as well as the rest of his credit and weapons sentence, he was released. However, when he moved to Nevada and changed his legal name to Ryan Davis following the leak of a pornographic tape featuring a woman giving him oral sex, Cocos was designated a Tier 3 (high-risk) sex offender on the Nevada Sex Offender Registry, meaning he is required to register for life, and has to personally report to law enforcement every 90 days.

## Trivia

* In 2017, When Cocos posted pictures of his new pet parakeet online, it stirred debate in the To Catch a Predator community and led to references to "man on the wing" as well as comparisons to "the man with the bird on his head," fellow child predator Kevin Westerbeck.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/07/machine-gun-predator.html
2. ↑ http://www.nvsexoffenders.gov/OffenderDetails.aspx?Display=Main&Id=2cLdPdLs5gS2LaWOdz30xQ==&uid=7ec73540-ce81-440f-836a-ade7730ffb80&x=9190e53f-cc62-4b77-8043-535e5291a28b