Samuel Harrison

* Then
* Now

**Samuel Ray Harrison** is an unaired potential predator involved in the Flagler Beach, Florida edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

Harrison was born in Ocala, Florida. He moved to Ohio when he was a small child with his parents. He would live with his grandparents for a while after his parents got divorced. Later, he moved to Louieville, Kentucky, with his mother where he spent almost twenty years living. Harrison later moved back to Flordia because his grandma had been sick and he wanted to spend time with her. Harrison shared a residence with a 39-year-old roommate prior to being caught in the sting.

## Sting and Arrest

Samuel Harrison started an online conversation with a Perverted Justice decoy who was pretending to be a fourteen-year-old boy named Derek. He was 32, but pretended to be 26. Harrison refers to the boy as "jail bait" as soon as they begin talking. He told the boy that he was interested in having oral sex and trying various sexual positions with him. Harrison asked the child if he was a police officer and told him several times he didn't want to meet in the sting house. Harrison lived about four miles from the sting house. He refused to get into the sting house, instead trying to convince the decoy to get into his car. When he finally gets out of his car, Chris Hansen tries to interview him. He is then seen being arrested.

## Aftermath

Harrison breaks down in tears while he is being questioned by the police. He asserts that he has met people online, but not any children. He simply responds that he was being "stupid" when the investigator inquires as to what was taking place. Harrison said he was planning to go to the beach and converse with the decoy when the investigator questioned what his intentions were when he met the decoy. He insists that he did not want to see him because he was "scared," "feeling bad," and that he did not want to meet him.

The investigator challenges his excuses by citing details from his chat log. When the investigator asks him if they met outside to have sex, Harrison responded that "it was to cold" for them to do it. He said that he would not engage in sexual activity with the boy and that he arrived at the sting house because he was "bored." He states that after meeting and "talking" with the boy, he would have gone to the grocery shop and made a brief stop at the bank. Harrison claimed that he would have kept in touch with the boy on the internet, but just as friends.

Harrison was found guilty of attempted Lewd or Lascivious battery with victim 12-15 years old and Using the Internet to attempt to solicit a child for sex/lewdness. He was sentenced to 13 months in prison, five years of sex offender probation, and had to register as a sex offender for life. He was released from prison in 2008 and was on probation until 2013. Later, Harrison relocated back to Louieville, Kentucky, where he is a permanently registered sex offender.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=Antitrust40242
2. ↑ https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/offenderSearch.jsf
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/10/to-catch-predator-update-flagler-beach.html
4. ↑ http://kspsor.state.ky.us/Home/OffenderDetails/GWn6J9E26FJ9iv-q6u6ICw?x=b41f2f9e-e8dd-41ae-9cd0-b1d8ba1446ae