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Dallas Lee

**Dallas Clyde Lee** is a suspected predator featured on the Fort Myers, Florida edition of To Catch a Predator.

## Biography

Lee, a 40 year old married man with children, started a chat with a decoy who was pretending to be a 14 year old boy in a AOL gay chatroom. He lied to the decoy about his age, claiming to be 20. Within minutes of talking, Lee asked the boy multiple graphic questions, including if he wanted to have oral sex. After a few hours of chatting, Lee drives to the sting house.

When he entered the house, Lee was confronted by Chris Hansen. Lee admitted to seeing Dateline NBC's previous **To Catch a Predator** broadcasts, and having a 19 year old son and 15 year old daughter. He claimed he may have discussed having sex with the boy, but his true motivation was to be a father figure after the decoy told him he didn't have a father. Chris directly contradicts his excuses by revealing the chat log where he lied about his age. Chris maintained that child sex predators like Lee were every parent's worst nightmare.

## Behind the scenes

Lee was found guilty of felony Using Internet to solicit/attempt solicit a child for sex. He was sentenced to 9 months in jail, 3 years of probation, and lifetime registration as sex offender. Lee later moved to Ohio, where he is listed as a Sexual Predator and has to update his status with law enforcement every 90 days for the rest of his life.

## References

1. ↑ https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=59896
2. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/12/to-catch-predator-update-fort-myers.html
3. ↑ https://www.icrimewatch.net/offenderdetails.php?OfndrID=1574514&AgencyID=55151&x=cdfad852-c255-411c-9fc1-c36b864ead2b
William Hare

**William Hare** is an unaired suspected predator confronted in the Ocean County, New Jersey edition of **To Catch a Predator.**

## Biography

21-year-old William Hare, a lifeguard and camp counselor who worked with children, first contacted a Perverted Justice decoy posing as a fourteen-year-old girl in a New Jersey MySpace chat room. Others in the same chat room told him to cease conversing with the decoy. Later, he chatted with the decoy in MySpace private messages and AOL Instant Messaging. William tried calculatingly to force statements of sex intent onto the child in an effort to avoid getting into trouble.

He kept asking her what she wanted to do because he wanted her to declare that she would take the initiative. William made a forceful effort to convince the teenager to call him frequently. He planned to meet the girl when she would be by herself at home after he made his intentions known. William claimed to know a girl who was murdered and by an online sexual predator and found dead in a dumpster. He also alleged that he had a girlfriend who drowned her baby in a toilet.

## Sting and aftermath

In many views throughout the episode, William can be seen approaching the residence and being taken into custody. He telephoned the decoy and informed her that he was outside the sting house. To make sure the coast was clear, he made the decision to unexpectedly arrive at the house. He was arrested at the entrance instead of getting an interview with Chris Hansen as a result of this.

William was sentenced to lifetime probation for his offenses, along with a lifetime registration as a sex offender with all the associated restrictions.

## References

1. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/04/to-catch-predator-update-ocean-county.html
2. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=venom8518
James Klein

**James Michael Klein** is a suspected predator involved in the Fortson, Georgia edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

Klein was 43 years old at the time when he began chatting with a decoy named "Nathasha", whom he thought was a 15 year old black girl. James asks the decoy if she ever experienced oral sex and says to the decoy "I can tell you one thing. My tongue would be all over you: your mouth, your nipples, down between your legs too." When talking to the decoy over the phone, James joked and laughed about the risk of being arrested and having to register as a sex offender for life if he was caught.

After driving over 100 miles to the sting house, the decoy, played by Del Harvey, tells James she has to do her laundry and then offers him iced tea. Chris Hansen then comes out behind a pair of curtains and asks how he is doing. James initially takes a seat when asked by Chris. Chris asks him if he found the place okay and what he is doing there. James says he doesn't know what he is talking about and quickly walks off. As soon as he exits the house, he is arrested by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

When being questioned by police, James says he had been married for 20 years and has three children who were ages: 11, 13, and 15. He tells the officers he was going to spend the night at the house and watch movies with the decoy. James later states that he had two glasses of wine when he started chatting with the decoy, and that it "clouded his judgement." James would eventually plead guilty to Attempted Child Molestation and Attempted Sodomy. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison with a minimum of five years to serve, ten years of probation, and (unsurprisingly) register as a sex offender for life. He was released around Christmas time in 2009, and remained on probation until 2019. He is still listed as a sex offender is Georgia.

## Behind the scenes

* James is best known for dicussing about getting back from lunch and having "pepper steak fixed a little bit different way" during his conversation with the decoy on the phone.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=holdyoucloser2003
2. ↑ https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/latest-news/article29236990.html
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/01/to-catch-predator-update-fortson-part.html
Deepak Bist

> “She l-lured me, I would say.”
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Bist's 2009 mugshot shortly before he absconded

**Deepak Bist** was a suspected predator involved in the Flagler Beach, Florida edition of **To Catch a Predator**. His is mostly known for attempting to blame the decoy for luring *him* during his police interrogation, as well as continuing a disturbing trend of educators targeting decoys around the same age as their pupils.

## Biography

Deepak was a 22-year-old college Chemistry teacher at the time he started chatting with “Jennah“, a girl he believed to be 13. He starts by acting like a guardian saying she shouldn’t be in the chat room and there are a lot of bad people there...including himself. It would sound like he was fighting the temptation, saying he was too old and he wasn’t a nice person several times, even calling himself a pervert, perhaps trying to get the decoy to stop chatting with him when he himself could have blocked her if he really didn’t want the chat to develop into anything sexual. He would also admit to watching TCaP, calling it, “pretty funny."

Deepak would cave to temptation and come to Flagler Beach for sex with the decoy bringing flowers, chocolates, condoms, and lube. He almost immediately lunges for the decoy as she backs away and Chris Hansen comes out for the save. Bist goes into a defensive mode and commences blaming the decoy for everything, saying things like, “She started it!” and “She said we’re having sex!”. After being informed he was a part of a Dateline sting, Deepak goes to leave the house but tries to go back inside once he saw the cops waiting. The cops snatch him out of the door and put him under arrest. Under interrogation, Bist continued to blame the girl, saying he was “lured”.

In 2009, during his criminal proceedings, Bist was rearrested on an unspecified misdemeanor charge and later posted bond. He was eventually sentenced to 21 months in jail on the Flagler Beach sting charges, but he appealed the decision all the way to the Supreme Court of Florida. By the time his last appeal was denied, Deepak had gone on the run rather than surrender himself to authorities. He is thought to have returned to Nepal.

## Trivia/Post-Predator Activities

* Deepak bears a striking resemblance to Vaikunth Soundarajan, a suspected predator exposed in the Petaluma, California sting.
* A Deepak Bist was murdered in a town on the Nepal/India border in 2012 by another man in a fight over an eighteen-year-old woman. The victim was the same age as Bist would have been, but could never be confirmed as being this Deepak Bist, considering it is a common name in that part of the world. As a result, his current status and whereabouts are unknown.
Dan Schrack

"*How ya doin Stanley?*"
―Dan enticing Stanley Kendall into the sting house.

## To Catch a Predator

**Dan Schrack**, sometimes known as "Decoy Dan", was the male decoy for the Murphy, Texas, Petaluma, California, and Ft. Myers, Florida stings of "To Catch a Predator". When he came for the part, he thought they were going to be dramatic reenactments, but learned the true nature when he was brought to his first sting. Dan came off as a confident and flamboyant decoy willing and able to arouse the predators coming for his Twinkiness with such lines as "Are you still ready to be my first?" or "Do you want to go first and take your clothes off?". He was also the decoy involved in the ill fated Louis Conradt confrontation which led to the cancellation of the show. Due to his involvement in Conradt's death, Schrack was named as a defendant in the subsequent lawsuit filed by Conradt's sister which was settled by NBC.

### Post-Predator

Dan would appear in a couple of commercials for Toys R Us before working with Dateline. Afterwards, Dan went to work as a reporter in Buffalo, New York, sending sample tapes of his reporting style to the stations in the area as well as putting up said samples on YouTube (he has since taken them down). He was able to land an internship at WIVB in Buffalo, New York, working his way up to a producing gig within the station. He then got his chance to work in front of the camera when he went to WENY in Elmira, New York as a news anchor. Finally, he went to WUHF in Rochester in 2019 to take on a journalist role. Dan would also try to become a YouTuber with a series called "Strange But True", but would discontinue the venture because his videos never did better than a couple hundred hits.

## Trivia

* Dan made $5000 per episode of TCaP.
* He is now a news anchor. Won the Tim Russert Medal of Outstanding Performance in 2015 for journalistic achievement.
* Dan has the distinction of luring in four potential predators (Louis Conradt, Edward Hollingsworth V, Stanley Kendall, and Timothy Knowles) who are now deceased.
* Though he is best known through his work on the show, he doesn't reference To Catch a Predator in any online bio or resume. It is on his acting credit section on the Internet Movie Database, however.
* Dan is widely considered to be the best male decoy, and is frequently contrasted with the Male HvP Decoy in Fairfield, Connecticut who said "Me, my mommy and my daddy".

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a3269/to-catch-a-predator/
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOPzNAqsTzY&ab\_channel=619films
3. ↑ https://www.weny.com/story/35815992/dan-schrack
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://13wham.com/station/people/dan-schrack
Aladdin Shamoun

Aladdin during his interview with Chris Hansen

> *“I hear the house is for sale.”*
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>  *- Aladdin's alibi.*
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**Aladdin Shamoun** was a potential predator confronted in the Suburban Washington, D.C. edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is best known for getting onto the ground and almost passing out due to his anxiety brought on by being confronted, as well as his elaborate story about his being there being for looking to buy a house.

## Biography

45-year-old Aladdin Shamoun, using the screen name "the\_sphinx59", started a sexually graphic chat with a girl he believed to be twelve years old name Sarah. He asked the decoy several graphic questions, including if he could penetrate her when they had sex. Aladdin appears at the sting home. Chris Hansen welcomes him as he waits for the decoy to emerge. Chris' hand is shaken by Aladdin, who then takes a seat on the stool. Aladdin comes up with the excuse that the sting house was up for sale and that his friend "Hishem" had informed him about it. He provides Chris with two phone numbers. Chris jokingly claims that he can call "Hishem" and solve the issue. He calls both numbers, but no one picks up.

Chris questions Aladdin about whether his visit to the house was a kind gesture for his friend. Later, Chris instructs Aladdin to tell the truth. Aladdin finally acknowledges that he went to see Sarah, a girl. Aladdin replies that he doesn't know when Chris inquires about the her age. Chris circles the age in the chatlog and shows Aladdin. Aladdin asserted that the girl claimed to be eighteen. Suddenly, Aladdin rises from the stool and lies on the ground. He stands back up, and Chris starts to grill him about his sexually explicit conversation log. Aladdin groans and lies back down on the ground. After Chris reveals who he is, Aladdin makes an apology but is interrupted when Chris' phone starts to ring. The person on the other end was the first person Chris called, not "Hishem", so he apologizes for calling and mentioned nothing about Aladdin, swiftly hanging up afterwards. Aladdin then leaves the sting house, apologizing and promising he'll never do such a thing again.

## Behind the scenes and 2023 update

After being exposed, Aladdin was one of the few men officially charged and a warrant was issued for his arrest locally with the Fairfax County Police in Virginia, but he absconded to Egypt before he could even be taken into custody. In April of 2023 , Hansen described how he was particularly disturbed by Aladdin at the time of the sting because the decoy, at twelve years old, was the youngest ever used in Hansen's investigations to that point. His current whereabouts are unknown.

## Trivia

-He is one of the two Egyptian predators the other being Mohamad Abdalla
Mike Vestal

**Mike Vestal** is a potential predator caught in the Petaluma, California segment of **To Catch a Predator.**

## Biography

37-year-old Mike, a married man, began a chat with a decoy who was posing as a 13-year-old girl. He told the decoy he was "kinda big down there," and sent a picture of his penis. Mike informed the decoy that she wouldn't want to have sex with boys her age when they met. He expressed concern over the possibility that the police and his wife might learn about his attempt to rape a child.

When Mike arrived at the sting house, he struck up a conversation with the decoy. Chris Hansen emerged and began questioning him. Like most predators, Mike insisted he wouldn't engage in any sexual activity with the victim. By reading from Mike's lewd chat conversations, Chris refuted his excuses. Mike kept crying and pleading to be let go with a warning since he believed Chris to be a police officer. Mike walked out of the sting house and was arrested after Chris revealed he was with Dateline and not a cop.

## Behind the scenes

When questioned by a detective, Mike insisted he wasn't planning to do anything and said he went to the sting house because he was "bored." He confessed that he was married for 13 years. For his crimes, Mike was sentenced in 2008 to 92 days in jail, 3 years of probation, lifetime sex offender registration, automatic polygraphs at the state's discretion, weekly required sex offender therapy and treatment, no possession of pornography, not to be around children under the age of 18, and to not have access to the internet.

Mike and his wife initially settled in Belize, but were compelled to leave when the government found out about his conviction. He had a child in 2017, and he now resides in La Antigua, where he also works as an English teacher and runs an online coaching business.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=mike\_vestal69
2. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/01/to-catch-predator-update-petaluma-part.html
Brian Emmons

**Brian Emmons** was an unaired predator involved in the Fort Myers, Florida edition of **To Catch a Predator.**

## Biography

30-year-old Brian Emmons, a Sunday School teacher, started a conversation on the internet with a Perverted Justice decoy who was pretending to be a girl who was fourteen. Brian immediately inquired as to if she was single and preferred older men. Throughout the conversation, Brian grooms the girl by complimenting her and creating scenarios with her. Later, he expresses his genuine motivations, saying that he wants to engage in "hot wild sex" with her. He inquired if she shaved her genitals, if he could perform oral sex on her, and asked if she was on birth control. He discloses later in the conversation that he was a virgin and had only ever engaged in oral sex.

Brian ended the chat by saying "brb." He never returned to the chat. After ending the conversation, he made an unexpected call to the decoy. Brian travelled nearly two hours to the Fort Myers sting house after the decoy persuaded him to meet her over the phone. Although his interview with Chris Hansen is unaired, Perverted Justice claims when he was exposed on national television, he said, "I don't want my face on TV."

## Aftermath

Perverted Justice reported that during Brian's police questioning, he confessed to possessing child pornography. In March 2007, Brian was convicted of a felony charge of Attempted Lewd or Lascivious battery with a victim 12-15 years old. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison, three years of probation, and must register as a sexual offender for life. In February 2009, Brian was then found guilty of Possession of a Photo/Picture Showing Sexual Performance by a Child, a felony. His sentence for this charge is unknown.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?archive=brian\_e024
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=53017&x=1bd2acae-d557-4f46-9cb8-5674876959c0
3. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/12/to-catch-predator-update-fort-myers.html
Stephen Holt

* Then
* Now

**Stephen Michael Holt** is an unaired suspected predator involved in the Flagler Beach, Florida edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is most notable for almost being caught in the Greenville, Ohio sting, which, hadn't he been too young to meet the illegal meeting requirements, would've made him the youngest man caught at eighteen years old.

## Biography

Stephen Holt was almost caught in the Greenville, Ohio sting, investigation in March of 2006. Although he was eighteen at the time, he was not approved to be busted in Ohio because he was still in high school and did not meet the age-spread requirements between him and the decoy. By the time of the Flagler Beach, Florida sting, Stephen attended college in South Florida. He was now nineteen and complied with the age-spread standards. In a Yahoo chat room in December 2006, he started an online conversation with a decoy pretending to be a thirteen-year-old girl. Stephen inquired as to the type of underwear she was wearing, promised to teach her various sex practices, sent pictures of his genitals, and vowed to take her virginity. He told the decoy that since they would be having sex, she should only inform her closest friends since it was very illegal.

## Behind the scenes

Stephen drove several hours to the Flagler Beach sting house. Instead of meeting a real child, he was greeted by Chris Hansen. Despite the fact that his interview was never broadcasted, Perverted Justice said Stephen laughed when Chris inquired about the genitalia pictures he had sent to someone he thought was a child.

During his police questioning, Stephen admitted he was arrested for shoplifting when he was around six years old. Detective Liz Williams asked what his plan was when he met the girl. Like the majority of child sex predators, Stephen insisted he would merely watch movies with her rather than engage in sexual activity. When Williams questioned if the decoy wanted to have sex with him, Stephen asserts he probably would have.

## Aftermath

First, Stephen pleaded Nolo Contendere to the charges leveled against him. Later, he made an effort to fight it. He pursued his case in higher courts. His attorney attempted to have the evidence against him dismissed on the grounds that he was unaware that he was conversing with a fictional thirteen-year-old, that the chat log was being recorded, and that the fictitious thirteen-year-old was not present in Flagler Beach during some of the conversation. He was unsuccessful in his arguments. Stephen ultimately received a two-year prison term, probation, and lifetime registration as a sex offender. He now lives in Nebraska and is a registered sex offender there.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=shoelessdaishi
2. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/02/to-catch-predator-update-flagler-beach.html
3. ↑ https://sor.nebraska.gov/Registry/Offender/2022052KD?x=392ec06b-3e01-4804-9fb3-e147f1a96014
Farzad Kalantari

**Farzad Kalantari** is a suspected predator involved in the Long Beach, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

29-year-old Farzad Kalantari, a native of Iran, began an internet chat with a Perverted Justice decoy who was posing as a twelve-year-old girl. Farzad stated that he wanted to have sex with the decoy and asked, "DO YOU HAVE ANY COUNDOM?" After she says no, Farzad said, "I MUST GO SHOPPING."

Farzad also started conversations with eight other Perverted Justice contributors who were posing as young girls in Yahoo chat rooms. Farzad mistook the contributor acting as the twelve-year-old girl with another decoy he had been conversing with. Later, he appeared to suspect that the contributor might be the same decoy speaking to him on Yahoo using a different name. After eventually outlining his ideas and obtaining the address and phone number, he later claimed that he had dialled the incorrect number and arrived at the incorrect address.

## Sting and arrest

Farzad extends his hand to shake the decoy's when he enters the sting house. She gives it to him grudgingly, and he tries to kiss her forcibly. Before things grew worse, Chris Hansen quickly entered the room, shook Farzad's hand, and motioned for him to take a seat. Farzad replies that the girl was fourteen when asked about her age. Chris disproves his lie and informs him that the girl in the chat log said she was twelve. Farzad insisted he wasn't there for sex but rather to help the girl with her education. Chris reads from his sexually graphic chat to again dispute his excuses.

Farzad then claims to be from Austria and has poor English language skills. Chris demonstrates the conversation logs to Farzad and remarks on how he groomed a young girl while speaking English perfectly fine. Farzad indicated it was his first time having a sexually explicit chat with an underage girl. Chris reveals to Farzad that he was aware that two weeks prior to arriving at the sting house, he had communicated with another decoy who was posing as a girl under the age of fourteen. Farzad maintains he was only having a conversation with her. Chris later admits to working for Dateline NBC, causing Farzad to flee the house and get arrested by Long Beach police.

## Aftermath

When interviewed by police, Farzad becomes distraught and says, "May be kill myself. Maybe." Farzad would later plead guilty to a felony charge of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age. He was sentenced to three years of probation, registration as a sex offender, and 60 days of Caltrans cleanup.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=farzadboy2003
Dragon Steak

### **Flavor Profile**

**Dragon Steak** is an ingredient found in Forest. It is acquired from Dragon, when it is killed. Only one portion will drop per dragon killed. As with all other 'boss' monster ingredients, it is one of the most powerful in game, and a great help for achieving fire-earth dishes. Placing it down first will guarantee that the dish immediately transforms, due to its high point count.

As a steak, and being one from a strong, hard to kill, monster, dragon steak is likely highly sought after and expensive. However, since most of the dishes made from it involve the meat being shredded (as in Ziggy's gyro, or Thrash's bandeja paisa, which often involves ground meat or sausages), or softened (as in Mina's curry), it is most likely a very tough cut of meat that's hard to eat by itself.
Thomas Moffitt

> ”Get your library card.”
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A picture of Moffitt with a husky

**Thomas Moffitt** is a suspected predator in the Fort Myers, Florida investigation of **To Catch a Predator**. He was one of the three men (along with Michael Wilusz and Brian Gosselin) who took their cases to trial and was acquitted.

## Biography

Moffitt was a 44-year-old Maintenance Engineer at the Boca Raton Resort at the time he began a chat with “Toni”, a girl he believed to be fifteen. Moffitt was at first worried because he thought the idea of a man his age hitting on a fifteen-year-old girl would freak her out (he was right), Then he would make plans to meet the girl at her house where he promised to strip down when he got to the laundry room. Thomas would then make the two-hour drive with alcohol, condoms, and a camera to the sting house.

Upon arriving, he is reticent to walk through the front door. Emily meets him at the door to try to coax him into the house, but Moffitt is apprehensive. He wants to get a better look at her, but Emily doesn’t move. He says she doesn’t act the same or look the same as in her online photos or sound the same, to which Emily replies that people act differently online, but doesn’t have an answer for his other suspicions. They go back and forth for half an hour, with Moffitt asking Emily to show him some sort of identification to prove that she’s real like a piece of mail. Emily tries to go quid pro quo with him telling him that she’ll get her library card as long as he comes in and strips as he promised. Moffitt tries to case the place while this is happening. When Emily comes back without her library card, he asks where the nearest Walgreens is to which she replies the situation is “retarculous” and walks away. Moffitt attempts to go back to his car where he is apprehended by Ft, Myers Police, proclaiming to them, “I didn’t do anything!”

## The Trial

Moffitt pled not guilty to the charges against him and was represented by public defender J. William Miskovich. Miskovich argued not on what his client may or may not have done, but rather the evidence-collecting methods employed by Perverted Justice and subpoenaed the computers the chats took place on. Perverted Justice initially refused to honor the subpoena, but after a court order to hand over the computers and hard drives, Perverted Justice head Xavier von Erck told the court the hard drives had crashed and been destroyed. Because of this, Moffitt was acquitted.

## Trivia

* Because Moffitt wasn’t convicted on the charges against him, his chat is not available on Perverted Justice’s website. Furthermore, any information regarding his initial booking and charges against him are not available for public view.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySLy3WhRLWw
2. ↑ http://sexoffenderresearch.blogspot.com/2008/12/fl-2008-dateline-predator-sting-huge.html
Greenville, Ohio

**Greenville, Ohio** was the fourth investigation conducted on ***To Catch a Predator*****.**

## Plot synopsis

*Is this a crime that only happens in and around big cities? Or does it happen everywhere? Seventeen men are arrested over a three day period as Dateline goes to the Heartland.*

## Overview

The premise behind the fourth Dateline investigation was to see if the problem of internet predators was as big a problem in small towns as it was in big cities, so Dateline set up operations in Greenville, a town with a population of 13,000. It is unknown whether the point was made because dates were made with men in the area, or if it wasn't because information had gotten out that Dateline was in town and the locals all dropped out. Because of this, the men caught in the sting drove long distances to keep a date for underage sex.

In order for the most serious charges to be filed against the men, the chats had to be conducted by law enforcement. To that end, the Darke County Sheriff's Department temporarily deputized the Perverted Justice members. Seventeen men were arrested over a three day period between March 24th and 26th, 2006.

## Notes & Trivia

* Two Flagler Beach suspected predators David Wagner and Stephen Holt were almost caught in this sting.
* During filming, a neighborhood couple, noticing a great deal of activity around a place they believed to be empty, actually came to the door of the sting house, where they were met by Chris Hansen. Once he introduced himself, the pair instantly put two and two together and went on their way.
* Most of the men in the sting only received ten-year stays on the sex offender registry, with many of them (except Ronnell Stephens-Tun, Glenn Mitchell, Kevin Wetserbeck and Nathan Downhour) no longer being on the list. Westerbeck and Mitchell are classed a sexually dangerous predators due to past legal issues, while Stephens-Tun and Downhour moved to different states with stricter laws, most likely meaning they have to register for life as well.

## Predators and Personnel

* A list of all involved in the Greenville investigation.

1. ↑ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ha0ZMddttsg
Takedown with Chris Hansen

**Takedown with Chris Hansen** is the third and latest in the line of Chris Hansen's predator investigation television programs, and the first since *Hansen vs. Predator* five years earlier. It is available to stream via Hansen's true crime streaming service TruBlu.

## Synposis

*"Over the past two decades, Chris Hansen's investigations have led to hundreds of would-be sex criminals stopped in their tracks. Amazingly, after 500 arrests and hundreds of millions of video views, men continue to try to meet children online; so his mission continues."*

## Trivia

* The general reception of the show has been mixed amongst fans, with many still finding strong entertainment in it, while a minority believe that it simply pales in comparison to Hansen's earlier work.
* Because the show is still relatively new, not as much content is available for free online without a TruBlu subscription, with a select few episodes being uploaded to the official YouTube channel as taste testers for the whole series. Some have subsequently been removed.
Abhilash Bhaskaran

**Abhilash Bhaskaran** is a suspected predator involved in the Fortson, Georgia sting. He is known for his "for sex I am not coming" line, which has become legendary among the TCaP community.

## Biography

34-year-old Abhilash was a director of software development for a large computer company who started a chat with a Perverted Justice decoy posing as a 13-year-old girl named "Amy". He asked the decoy if she would like to "take me in your mouth." Before they ended the chat, Abhilash claimed he could be in a lot of trouble because having sex with a minor is classified as rape. When he arrived at the house and made small talk with the decoy, Chris Hansen confronted him.

Abhilash then explains to Chris he was there to just make a friend and told her "for sex I am not coming". He states he wouldn't have raped the child because he was educated and had an MBA. Abhilash says he has trouble with his marriage and "wanted a friend to talk to." Abhilash admits to Chris he took a day off from his job to travel to the house. After he is exposed on national television by Chris, he is arrested by police officers. When brought before investigators, Abhilash states that he is a foreign national and wants to speak to a lawyer.

## Behind the scenes

Abhilash was awaiting trial on charges of criminal attempt to commit child molestation when. even though he was expected to plead guilty, he fled from the United States. He is wanted by the Harris County Sheriff's Department on a charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. It is believed he fled to Kerala, India.

## References

1. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/12/to-catch-predator-update-fortson-part.html
2. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/index.php?pg=wantedbhaskaran
Selvan Galeano

**Selvan Alexander Galeano** is a suspected predator involved in the Long Beach, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

24-year-old Selvan Galeano began chatting with a decoy who was posing as a thirteen-year-old girl. He asked the girl if she was a virgin and if she had tried oral sex. He arrives at the sting house and poured himself a glass of punch. Galeano sits down when requested to do so after Chris Hansen discloses who he is. Galeano maintains that he was only going to hang out and that he then had to pick up his belongings from a friend's house. He stated that the girl was either sixteen or seventeen when questioned about her age. Chris challenges his excuses and informs Galeano that the girl told him her age.

Galeano then claims that girl was thirteen, yet he adds that he asked her if she wanted to keep talking and that she looked sixteen or seventeen in her profile picture. Chris reviewed over his chat log once more to expose his lies and asked if he was genuinely prepared to tell the truth. Like many other child sex predators, Galeano asserted that he had never engaged in sexual chats online. Then he reveals he had condoms in his car, but says he was not going to use them. When the cameras come out, Galeano apologized and mentioned not to talk to underage people online. Galeano is instructed to leave through the house's back door as fellow child predator Paul Clemente was heading in. Galeano was then arrested and taken in custody.

## Behind the scenes

Galeano plead guilty to a felony charge of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age. He was given a suspended three year prison sentence, received time served for thirteen days in jail, 5 years of probation, lifetime registration as a sex offender, and sex offender counseling. As of July 2022, Galeano is in violation of his sex offender registry as he is listed as being absconded.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=nismo05007
2. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/02/to-catch-predator-update-long-beach.html
3. ↑ https://meganslaw.ca.gov/OffenderDisplay.aspx?searchby=offender&ID=23207094L2423&NSOPRFlag=True&x=4ef2b0c7-c466-4eff-86d0-54b55ae5224d
Miguel Lozoya

**Miguel Luiz Lozoya** is an unaired suspected predator featured on the Fort Myers, Florida edition of To Catch a Predator.

## Biography

22-year-old Miguel Lozoya began an online chat with a Perverted Justice who was posing as a fourteen-year-old girl. In the conversation log, Miguel claimed that his parents paid for everything he did.  He later inquired about the decoy's virginity, whether she had ever had sex with an older man, whether she masturbated, and whether she had ever shaved her genitalia. Miguel asked the decoy for gas money after getting concerned about the cost of the three and a half hour trip to the sting house.

## Behind the scenes

Miguel arrived at the sting house only after two days of talking. Although his interrogation with Chris Hansen was never shown, he can be seen in the predators' montage informing Chris that this was his first time attempting to meet someone online. Miguel was unable to make bail and was found guilty of Using the Internet to solicit/attempt solicit etc. a child for sex/lewdness, a third-degree felony. He was sentenced to six months in jail, three years of probation, and registration as a sex offender for life. Miguel later moved out of Florida to Garden City, Kansas, where he is registered as a sex offender for life.

## References

1. ↑ https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/offenderSearch.jsf
2. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=sphinx\_56\_02
3. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/12/to-catch-predator-update-fort-myers\_14.html
4. ↑ https://www.kbi.ks.gov/registeredoffender/OffenderDetails.aspx?Display=Main&Id=7318&uid=b7081ed1-50aa-43d1-a40f-3566bb96c727&x=fd8b2f7a-ebbb-4e51-9802-91fae4f1a219
John Frantz

**John Frantz** was a potential predator caught in the Greenville, Ohio sting.

## Biography

33 year old Frantz began chatting with a Perverted Justice decoy posing as a fourteen year old girl. As soon as he started the chat, Frantz asked the decoy if she was a cop and what department she worked for. Later, after a brief discussion about Greenville and basketball, Frantz stopped responding to the decoy. The next day, he approached the decoy and made intentions of having sex with her. Within hours of chatting, Frantz drove to the sting house. Frantz stopped at the door of the house after arriving and demanded the decoy to present herself to him. Instead, Chris Hansen appeared and asked for him to sit down. Frantz obliged and entered the house.

When asked by Chris what he was going to do with a fourteen year old girl, Frantz claimed he didn't think the girl was fourteen, that an older man was playing a practical joke on him, and that he kept thinking it wouldn't be a good idea to rape a minor. Frantz claimed he had prepared a statement before getting to the sting house after Chris had roasted him. Frantz started reading, announcing that he would have refrained from giving alcohol or having sex with the girl. If the girl was genuinely fourteen years old, he said, he would make an effort to "befriend" and "mentor" her. He comes to the conclusion that her parents should be aware of her behavior and seek treatment for her. When Chris questioned him on why he wrote the letter, Frantz explained that he wanted a record for someone to examine if something happened to him. Chris was unimpressed by his excuses,  and later revealed his name. Frantz declared he was "ashamed" after being surrounded by cameramen. He is quickly taken in for questioning when he left the house.

## Behind the scenes

The Darke County Sheriff's Department labelled Frantz's statement as an "alibi letter." They believed he created it so if he was arrested, it would look like he was innocent. Because of his crime, Frantz was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 30 days of house arrest, three years of probation, register as a sexually oriented offender for ten years, complete 40 hours of community service, take no drugs or alcohol, have no unsupervised contact with children under the age of eighteen, complete a sex offender treatment program, and pay all court and treatment costs. Frantz served less time than the other predators in the sting because a pre-sentencing report by a psychiatrist stated that he could be rehabilitated. Frantz was later taken off the sex offender registry in 2016.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=netbuckeye
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/11/to-catch-predator-update-greenville.html?m=1
Michael Popovich

> *"*I love that you want to be bound and restrained, my hot little slave princess*"*
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> -Michael showing his appreciation to the decoy.
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**Michael Joseph Popovich** is a suspected predator caught in the Fairfield, Connecticut sting. He is notable for getting the longest prison sentence out of any of the predators caught in the sting.

## Biography

Michael Popovich, a former marine lieutenant colonel, first made contact with a decoy posing as thirteen-year-old girl named Bailey on a free internet chat room called Wireclub. Between August 23, 2015 and November 8, 2015, Popovich detailed the sex acts he wanted to do with the girl and those he wanted her to have with him. Additionally, he posted a lot of images of himself, including ones in which he was shirtless at the beach, wearing a suit, his full Marine dress uniform, and several sexually explicit images and videos. Popovich later backs out, stating he could not meet her for sex because of her age. He said that she could always call him "daddy."

## Behind the scenes

Because Popovich did not travel to Connecticut to the sting house, the Fairfield Police Department provided all the information to the Virginia Beach Police Department, who took over the investigation. A search warrant was obtained for Popovich's house on November 12, 2015, and on November 13, 2015, Popovich was taken into custody at the Norfolk International Airport. He admitted talking to Bailey and that he was aware that she was thirteen-years-old. He also acknowledged sending her countless pornographic links. In addition, he acknowledged that he had interacted with minors online but denied ever having sex with a child.

On June 7, 2016, Popovich pleaded guilty to two felony counts of Electronic Means for Procuring Minors for Obscene Material. Circuit Court Judge William R. O'Brien sentenced Popovich to 20 years in prison with ten years suspended. When he completes his sentence, Popovich is also required to complete sex offender and anger management therapy, subject to regular polygraph exams, refrain from unsupervised contact with children under the age of eighteen, and be on supervised probation for the remaining ten years of good behavior.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/article\_482c7bf8-dc86-55aa-a82c-b739596589c6.html
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://www.vbgov.com/news/pages/selected.aspx?release=2946&title=commonwealth+v.+michael+joseph+popovich;+%E2%80%9Chansen+v.+predator%E2%80%9D+series+leads+to+local+investigation;+man+sentenced+to+10+years+for+solicitation+of+minors
Ernesto Linayao

**Ernesto C. Linayao Jr** was an unaired suspected predator involved in the Petaluma, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

On March 17, 1975, Ernesto C. Linayao Jr. was born in Lodi, California, a little town west of Stockton, where he would spend the rest of his life. His relationship with his girlfriend ended in 2003.

#### Chat with decoy

On August 19, 2006, Linayao, using the screen name "norcal8guy," started a conversation with a Perverted Justice decoy pretending to be a thirteen-year-old girl named Leigh Anna. She claimed that being caught at a party resulted in her getting grounded. When Linayao enquired about her favorite beverage, she replied, "Mike's Hard Lemonade."

Linayao stated he liked jack and diet coke because Mike's Hard Lemonade was too sweet. He enquired about her drinking habits and offered to bring wine and movies. Linayao went on and on about how they would watch a movie from Blockbuster and get "wasted" together. He casually broached subjects like kissing her and having her massage him, stating he was joking each time. Linayao even requested her to play the part of a gardener as she had her way with him.

#### Interview with Chris Hansen

As soon as the decoy claimed that she was alone at home, Linayao traveled two hours from Stockton to Petaluma. After showing up at the sting home in Petaluma, California, on August 27, 2006, his interview with Chris Hansen was never broadcasted. On the website for Perverted Justice, his picture was not published.

## Behind the scenes

In 2009, Linayao pleaded guilty to a felony count of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under fourteen years of age. He was given a suspended prison sentence, three years of probation, lifetime registration as a sex offender. subject to random drug tests, and had to submit to random searches. After his probation expired in 2012, Linayao continued to live in Lodi. He passed away from undetermined causes on February 26, 2018, at the age of 42.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/09/this-petaluma-predator-died-without.html
2. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=norcal8guy
3. ↑ https://www.cherokeememorial.com/services-obituaries/2018/4752
4. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193183036/ernesto-c-linayao
Hansen vs. Predator

> *I'm Chris Hansen and this is an investigation called Hansen vs. Predator. So if there's anything else you want people to know, anything you want to say, now would be a good time.*
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**Hansen vs. Predator** (sometimes abbreviated as **HvP**) is a spinoff of To Catch a Predator that is shown on the program **Crime Watch Daily**. In this program, Chris Hansen interviews various men who made attempts to meet up with underage girls and boys for sexual liaisons. The sting for Hansen vs. Predator was recorded in Fairfield, Connecticut.

## Synopsis

> *Journalist Chris Hansen works with Connecticut police to catch potential child predators, men trying to solicit sex with underage teens. When predators enter the sting house, Hansen confronts them in his compelling investigation.*
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## Episodes

The first and only season of Hansen vs. Predator was filmed in Fairfield, CT. The episode list is as follows:

1. Stephen Buchanan
2. John Dupee
3. Joshua Colon
4. Jesse Velez
5. Michael Manzi
6. Charles Lawrence
7. David Tiriolo & Michael Popovich
8. Jeff Sokol
9. Michael Gentile

## See Also

* TCAP Hansen VS Predator Uncut Marathon (Every Predator)

1. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10293080/
Lindsay Faye Wagner

* Lindsay Back then
* Lindsay Today

> "I think the toilet's gone." - Lindsay failing at ad-lib
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**Lindsay Faye Wagner** also known as **Lindsay Faye** was one of the female decoys for the Murphy, Texas edition of **To Catch a Predator.**

## Biography

Lindsay was the heavyset decoy used by Dateline because, in the words of Chris Hansen, they wanted to prove a point that it didn't matter what the "child" looked like because a predator would prey on anyone. He was wrong.

Given the name "Sequoia", the very first man that showed up at the house (Timothy Gilliam) started laughing and shaking his head when he saw her trying to coax him into the house with Halloween candy as if it were Predator Opposite Day. Another predator walked out of the house as soon he walked in upon seeing her.

She constantly flubbed her ad-libs whenever a predator asked her a question not in her conversation set. For example, when she offered one of them (Eric Rubalcava) a choice of soft drinks, he only wanted a glass of water. Since it wasn't part of the list of drinks she was offering, she replied, "I drank it all", despite there being a tap not five feet away from her. When asked to use the bathroom, she struggled to come up with a response, delivering the line at the top of the article. Finally, another potential predator upon seeing her exited the house as soon as he came in. She ended up being replaced by Del Harvey for the rest of the sting.

## Post-Predator Activities

Wagner is an actress and a SAG member, so she went into theater after TCaP and also had small parts in shows like "Ray Donovan", "Law and Order: True Crime", and "I Love Dick" (no joke). She has also slimmed down considerably since her TCaP days.

## Trivia

* Despite her build, Chris Hansen would refer to her as “petite” in post-production voiceovers.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2089756/?ref\_=fn\_al\_nm\_1