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Nervous Nellie/Nelly

The decoy during the Jeff Sokol sting

> *"Sorry, I'm like too nervous to eat."*
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**Nellie/Nelly** (*real* *name redacted as per her request for anonymity*) was a decoy in the Fairfield, Connecticut, HvP sting operation. She is often regarded as one of the best decoys in either of Chris Hansen’s exposè series.

## Biography

### *Hansen vs. Predator*

"Nellie" (twenty years old at the time) was recruited as the female decoy for the Fairfield, Connecticut, sting because she was a theatre student from a nearby college. She proved herself as an exceptional decoy, able to adapt on the fly and engage with the predators far longer than most decoys before her. Chris Hansen described her as *"a gutsy and confident decoy."* Nellie was the only female decoy present for the HvP stings, meaning she dealt with all of the men that came to the sting house looking for an underage girl.

### Post-*Predator* activities

Nothing is known about what happened to Nellie following her appearance on HvP, but it can be safely assumed that she excelled in her education and graduated college. Chris stated that he has attempted to reach out to Nellie for an interview on his "Predators I've Caught" podcast, but no agreement has been finalized at this time.

## Trivia

* Nellie earned her famous "Nervous Nellie/Nelly" nickname due to her timid and shy nature when interacting with the suspected predators. Her true name is unknown due to her requesting to remain anonymous.
	+ A recent image of Nellie has surfaced on the TCaP subreddit, which shows her holding a kitten on her birthday.
* Nellie had THREE predators attempt to hug her, those being Jeff Sokol, John Dupee, and Vincent Ambrosio. When John Dupee tried to hug her, Nellie immediately leaves the room for Chris Hansen to come in.
* She has described the Male HvP Decoy as looking younger in person than he does on camera.

## Quotes

**Nellie**: It's so nice to finally see you!

**Dupee**: What's up?

**Nellie**: This is- this is crazy!

**Dupee**: Are you nervous?

**Nellie**: Yeah, I'm really nervous.

**Dupee**: Why?

**Nellie**: I don't know, I've never done this! Have you?

**Dupee**: No.

**Nellie**: \*bites lip\* So what do you want to do?

**Dupee**: A hug? \*proceeds to stand up and approach the decoy, arms spread\*

**Nellie**: Uhhhh-I don't know... \*leaves\*

**Chris Hansen**: \*enters the room\* Hey boo.
Manuel Uson

> "Maybe I can work for you guys. I'm really hoping I can work for you guys."
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**Manuel Carlos Uson** is a suspected predator involved in the Petaluma, California edition of **To Catch A Predator**.

## Biography

Manuel was a 43 year old plant supervisor at a major automotive company when he entered into a chat with a girl he believed to be thirteen named "Willow". He starts by trying to speak Tagalog with her, but she doesn't understand what he's saying (the decoy pretended to be Filipino). Only nine minutes after finding out the girl's age and lying about his age being 25, he says that he wants to give her oral sex. From there it descends into raunchier sexual talk from Uson, who admits he is masturbating while talking to her and that he masturbates twice a day. The chat continues for almost a week. Before he comes, he calls the decoy while he's eating hot dogs .

Manuel comes to the trap house with lunch (a quesadilla) and condoms. Rochelle meets him in the back yard and goes to start the jacuzzi, which Manuel is staring at when Chris Hansen emerges to confront him. Manuel tries to say he only came over to meet her for lunch, but Hansen counters that with some of the vulgar things he said in the chat which Uson nervously laughs at upon hearing. He says he was just teasing and it was all in the pretend world of chat, to which Hansen says it became real when he showed up. Uson is informed of what he had walked into and he leaves to be apprehended by police in the garage. He is more up front with the investigators of his intent, but tries to blame his wife in the Philippines, saying she's so demanding and that's why he did it. He then tries to bargain with the investigator, implying that he wanted to go undercover to help them catch other predators so they would take it easy on him, but they weren't going for it.

Uson would be convicted of Attempted Lewd or Lascivious Acts With a Minor Under 14, receive 90 days in jail with three years probation, and lifetime RSO status.

## Trivia/Post-Predator Activities

* Uson would later be deported back to the Philippines. It is unknown if this was in connection with his arrest.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?archive=bendix632
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jERyWutxcfA&ab\_channel=candidfellow
3. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=bendix632
4. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/01/to-catch-predator-update-petaluma-part.html
To Catch a Predator Wiki

## Overview

***To Catch a Predator*** (sometimes abbreviated to **TCaP** and commonly given the misnomer **How to Catch a Predator**) was an American reality television series in the television news magazine program *Dateline NBC* featuring confrontations with host Chris Hansen, partly filmed with hidden camera, of adults arriving at a sting house to have sex with a minor and typically being arrested as a result. The minors are adults impersonating underage persons (generally ages 12–15) in online chats.

The series premiered in November 2004 as **Dangerous Web (with Stone Philips)**, and featured 12 investigations in total held across the United States. The investigations were conducted as undercover sting operations with the help of online watchdog group Perverted-Justice. Since the third installment, law enforcement and other officials were also involved, leading to the arrests of most individuals caught. No new episodes have aired since December 2007 due to controversy and lawsuits from one of the investigations, effectively ending the series. Eight years later, Hansen would begin a new series of hidden camera stings in Fairfield, Connecticut entitled **Hansen vs Predator** on the daily true crime digest show *Crime Watch Daily.* Ten men were confronted and arrested and shown sporadically throughout Hansen’s tenure on the program.

## Why don't you have a seat right over there...

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Paul Clemente

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**Paul Clemente** was a suspected predator featured in the Long Beach, California edition of **To Catch A Predator.** He is often referred to as “The 22-year-old virgin”. He is also known for his radical change in accent when Hansen confronts him. He is one of many men to have seen the show before being caught.

## Biography

Paul, a 22-year-old college student, chatted up a decoy that he believed to be thirteen years old saying that he wanted to do all manner of sex with the decoy, even asking if it was okay to ejaculate on her face. He would admit to the decoy that he, at the age of 22, was still a virgin. This showed though brilliantly since he kept telling the decoy “Luv u!” every time he got a chance.

When he got to the trap house, he put on his best American accent to try to act suave around the decoy. The decoy then asks Paul to pour them some drinks as he gets ready. However, when he goes to do this, he sees two drinks already poured on the counter and anxiety shows in his face perhaps because he just figured out what was going on. Soon after, Chris Hansen walked in. He immediately hid his face (with a “No Fear” t-shirt, ironically) and started saying “Sir Please!”. Hansen would go in hard on Clemente with the snarkiness. When Paul claimed he wasn’t a real predator, Hansen replied, “So you’re just a pretend predator?” and when Paul said he just came because he was curious, Hansen called him “a curious predator”. After the savagery was over, Hansen mercifully let Paul leave. Not one second after he came out of the house, he proclaimed, *“I'm not a criminal, sir!”* to the officers closing in on his position. Nevertheless, he was arrested.

He got 60 days suspended sentence, three years probation, and a lifetime place on the Registered Sex Offender list. Rather than have to deal with RSO restrictions, Paul moved back to the Philippines.

## Post-Predator Activities

* Before his return to the Philippines, Paul got married to a girl he brought over from there.
* Paul was involved in drama with an Instagram model after harassing her.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=pol\_clemente
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxvaSxrsuK4&ab\_channel=TheCappeningChannel
Shaka Khan

> *"It's a pump for a...penis...a penis pump"*
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**Shaka Nasir Khan**was a suspected predator caught in the **Petaluma, California** editionof **To Catch A Predator**. He is often referred to as the "Penis Pump Predator" by TCaP fans.

## Biography

In 2006, 36 year old Khan started chatting with a girl he believed to be thirteen years old named "Samantha". Shaka lies about his age saying he's 25 and compliments the girl on her profile picture. 45 minutes into the chat, Khan makes a plan to come over to party and makes his intentions to have sex with the decoy known shortly after that. A fast mover, it only takes an hour and 36 minutes for Khan to initiate the chat to heading over to the house, armed with beer and condoms.

Khan never made it into the house due to another potential predator, Henry Guzman, arriving before him. Khan watches Guzman enter the house and police appear on the scene. Because of this, he decides to make his escape, but is pulled over by a police car down the street. At the mobile police substation, Khan attempted to shift the blame onto the decoy, telling the investigator that she made sex with him sound "like the greatest thing" during the chat. He then said the familiar "I felt really bad about coming" to the investigator. Finally, the investigator told Khan that they had found a "device" in his truck, a device which the investigator claimed he was not familiar with. Extremely embarrassed, Khan explained that it was a penis pump, the investigator then asked Khan to tell him more about this penis pump. Khan explained that he had picked it up during a bachelor party and had no intentions of using it.

## After the Sting

Khan was arrested in August 2006 and his case finally concluded with conviction in May of 2010. He pleaded guilty to child endangerment. He received 3 years of probation and had to submit a DNA sample and complete community service work. He did not have to register as a sex offender, Hansen said in his Podcast in 2023, he's not too sure how he feels about that.

## Trivia

* Khan's name may be a mix of Indian and Arabic nomenclature, though he claims Hawaiian ancestry in his chat with the decoy due to his first name being "Shaka", a common gesture in Hawaii.
* Due to his last name and large physic, Shaka is often compared to the *Mortal Kombat* antagonist Shao Kahn.

## Links

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mzuk96a4Ec (full TCaP segment)
Elias Bailon

> *"I don't even wanna think about it. She would kill me... Uh, her dad has ten brothers. They would kill me."*
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**Elias Rudy Bailon** is a suspected predator featured on the Fort Myers, Florida edition of To Catch a Predator.

## Biography

Elias, 22 years old, started chatting with a decoy named "Laney", who was posing as a 14 year old girl. He asked the decoy several graphic questions, including if she was a virgin and if ever she had ever had sex with her boyfriend. He questioned if she was a cop, that he didn't want to be in trouble, or go to jail. The two then plan a date to meet.

Elias drove 2 and a half hours to the sting house with a rose, alcohol, and condoms. When he entered the sting house, Elias asked the decoy if she could come out. He starts to put his stuff away, as Chris Hansen approaches him. When questioned about his intentions about having sex with the girl, Elias stated he was married and that his wife would never let him have fun. When Chris asked him what his wife would think if she found out he was going to rape a 14 year old girl, he claimed his wife would divorce him and that his father-in-law's ten brothers would try to kill him. He also admits to seeing men on the news getting arrested for trying to meet children for sex. After Chris revealed that he was with Dateline NBC, and cameramen surrounded Elias, Elias stated he was a "good guy" and "made a mistake." He was arrested by police after leaving the sting house.

## Behind the scenes

In 2006, Elias plead guilty to two felony counts of Use Internet to solicit/attempt solicit a child for sex/lewdness. He was sentenced to 9 months in jail, register as a sex offender for life, take mandatory sexual offender counseling, and placed on probation until 2010. After Elias registered as a sex offender, he fled the United States. He is listed as absconded and is believed to be residing somewhere in Latin America.

## References

1. ↑ https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=49636&x=91eb5ebe-0683-45ac-b72a-24079702a4cc
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/12/to-catch-predator-update-fort-myers\_14.html
3. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=daytona02
Dani Miura

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**Danielle Miura** aka **Dani Jayden** was the female decoy used in the Long Beach, California sting. She is an accomplished athlete having competed in the Junior Olympics and placing 2nd in the nation in swimming for the 100m breaststroke.

Miura moved to Los Angeles with the aspiration to become an actress with a guardian when she was sixteen because her parents were ensconced in their careers in emergency services and law enforcement. She’s a SAG member having done a few television roles outside of TCaP. She is now married with one child.

## Trivia

* Dani is undergoing a battle with the disease Lupus.
* Is of Japanese heritage.
* Even though the decoys are fed lines in their ears as to what to say to the potential predators, Dani says she improvised almost all of her lines.
* In an interview with Joey's TCaP Channel, Dani revealed that she encountered one of the predators caught in her sting, Satinder Thind, at a gym years later, though she quickly left before he recognized her.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://laist.com/2008/01/24/dani\_miura\_actr.php
2. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2230702/?ref\_=fn\_al\_nm\_1
3. ↑ https://m.youtube.com/watch?time\_continue=54&v=AUnzR1XrOEY&feature=emb\_title
Steven Reddington

**Steven M. Reddington** was a potential predator who appeared on **Dangerous Web** (the previous name for **To Catch A Predator**) in Bethpage, New York. He is more affectionately known as "Suspicious Steve."

## Biography

35-year-old Steven Reddington, a married man with children, used the screen name "sr82194," to hit up a Perverted Justice decoy who was impersonating a fourteen-year-old girl. Steven asked the decoy a number of explicit sexual questions, including if they could have oral and anal sex, if she was on birth control, whether she had ever shaved her genitalia, and if she had interacted with older men online. He said to the decoy that he didn't want his wife to learn about them having sex together.

## Behind the scenes

Instead of an actual child, Chris Hansen welcomes Steven to the sting house. Steven insists that he was aware that he had entered a sting operation. He argues that he went to the residence to check what was going on and that he is often "suspicious." Steven admits to Chris that he has children and says he just wanted to take the girl out to see a movie.  After Chris exposes him on national television, Steven walks out of the house and says he doesn't give them his permission to put him on television. Since this was Dateline NBC's first investigation into online sexual predators, local law enforcement did not conduct a parallel investigation. Steven was therefore never charged with a crime.
Gopichand Pai

**Gopichand Pai** is an unaired suspected predator involved in the Petaluma, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

Prior to being caught in the sting, Gopichand Pai was a software engineer for Apple. Pai was 25 at the time when he began a conversation on the internet with a Perverted Justice decoy who was impersonating a thirteen-year-old girl. Despite the fact that his conversation log cannot be accessed online, it is known that he used the screen name "paigopi." It only took Pai three minutes to start asking about sex and ten minutes to start requesting a meeting to have sex. He enquired as to whether she had large breasts and warned that since she was a virgin, it would hurt her when they had sex. Pai was also interested in kissing the decoy and having sex in various positions. He mentioned he wanted to play with and lick her breasts in addition to having oral sex with her.

## Confrontation

Pai was the first person they showed in the entire sting, even though Chris Hansen's conversation with him was not aired. He was seen wearing a blue plaid shirt while pouring himself some lemonade and talking with the decoy about his employment at Apple. Pai tells the decoy, "I missed my train first… then I missed my bus." It also shows him sit down when Chris orders him to.

### Aftermath

In March of 2007, Pai pled no contest to a felony charge of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under fourteen years of age. Pai made the decision to abscond while he awaited sentencing. An arrest warrant was put out for him. Pai is thought to have fled to Bengaluru, India, where he is believed to be employed by IBM as a consultant at a management level.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/index.php?pg=wantedpai
2. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/01/to-catch-predator-update-petaluma-part.html
Kenneth Forton

**Kenneth Edward Forton** is a suspected predator featured on the Fort Myers, Florida edition of To Catch a Predator.

## Biography

Forton, 30 at the time of the investigation, chatted with a decoy pretending to be a fifteen year old girl. He asked the decoy if he could have oral sex, tie her up, and what her favorite positions were. Since Kenneth was a construction worker, he talked about bringing rope to tie the decoy up during sex. When he arrives at the sting house, he hears the decoy's voice behind a door and dashes towards it. When Chris Hansen emerges rather than a child, his perverted plans are foiled.

Chris questioned Forton, who replied that he didn't know the name of the decoy. Then he said he had recently moved to Florida and was looking for friends. Forton admitted to having rope and duct tape in his car because of his position as a construction worker, but he denied possessing condoms or marijuana. When asked what he would have done with a fifteen year old girl, Forton responded that he would have simply talked to her because he had a six year old daughter he was trying to see. After Chris revealed that he worked for Dateline NBC, Forton was swarmed by camera crews. He left the sting home and was detained by law enforcement.

## Behind the scenes

When police searched Forton's car, they found marijuana, condoms, rope, duct tape, and other items. The police dubbed him the scariest predator in the investigation. Forton later pleaded guilty to felony using the internet to solicit/attempt solicit a child for sex/lewdness. He was sentenced to 9 months in jail, three years of probation, and registration as a sex offender for life. He was released in 2007 and his probation ended in 2010. Forton later moved to Michigan, and is registered as a sex offender there.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=kenneth\_forton
2. ↑ https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=49446
3. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/12/to-catch-predator-update-fort-myers.html
4. ↑ https://mspsor.com/Home/OffenderDetails?id=2a04a7bd-9cc8-488c-921a-0c3d9497ad0c&x=3badea44-fe31-443a-9882-8feee12b46bd
Ron Knight

> “Sit down! Sit. Down!” - Ron reading the Riot Act to Rabbi David Kaye.
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Ron eyeing Jesse Velez with bad intentions.

**Ron Knight** was the head of security and bodyguard for Chris Hansen during his investigations on **To Catch a Predator** and **Hansen vs Predator.**

## Biography

Knight was a member of NYPD for 23 years, reaching the rank of Lieutenant before retiring. Afterwards, he started a security company called “Roundtable Solutions”. He was contacted by Dateline NBC to run security at the sting houses the investigations would be run in. Seldom seen, he would only step into camera view on three types of occasions - when a potential predator would appear to become a physical danger when they would refuse to leave the sting house, and when they needed to be led to an alternate exit if another man was expected to arrive.

When Hansen started his spin-off show, **Hansen vs Predator**, Knight would resume this role, though he could only be seen in a select few episodes, mostly being seen in the raw footage tapes that were part of the “premium content” on Hansen’s defunct “Hansen vs Predators” channel on YouTube.

## Behind the scenes

* Chris often refers to Ron as "Ronnie Knight."
* Knight’s most memorable appearance was in the Suburban Washington, D.C. edition of TCaP where he comes between Chris and an irate Rabbi David Kaye, who was just told he was part of a hidden camera investigation. Chris showed bravado in a post-production interview, saying he didn’t feel like he was in any danger. However, he would admit on Twitter that if it wasn’t for Knight, “[he] would have probably got [his] butt kicked”.
* In the uncut footage of Kevin Westerbeck‘s confrontation, he is shown helping him off the stool to have him exit through the back.
* Mike Manzi was theorized to be Knight's nephew based on a supposed leaked text interview with a former HvP editor. This rumor claims that this is the reason why Manzi's uncut interview was never released is because directly addresses Knight as his uncle when confronted by him and the camera crew, and this is why he was so adamant about not leaving through the garage to be arrested. After the sting, Knight supposedly offered Manzi legal advice and even paid some of his bail money, but Manzi cut contact with him, feeling betrayed.
	+ Joey from Joey's TCaP Channel has claimed the rumor is false, with the real reason the uncut confrontation has never been released simply being that Hansen's website was taken down before he could post it, although it could still be released at a later date.
Jeffrey Couture

**Jeffrey Paul Couture** is a predator caught in the Petaluma, California segment of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

34-year-old Jeffrey Couture began an internet chat with with a decoy posing as a 13-year-old girl. He asked the girl if he could have sex with her and if she had ever received oral sex. He reached the sting house and struck up a conversation with the decoy. She said she had a surprise, which made Couture very happy. Chris Hansen later shows himself and made light of the fact that he wasn't the surprise Couture had anticipated.

Couture acknowledged being aware of it being setup and flat out admitted that he had a problem talking with underage girls about sex. He also admitted to having a girlfriend and bringing wine for the decoy. Although, like most child sex predators, Couture claimed he wasn't going to have sex with the girl. When exposed by Chris on national television, Couture walked out of the house and was arrested by police officers.

## Behind the scenes

Additionally, Couture told the authorities that he had a problem. He claimed that upon raping a child, he felt "excited." Additionally, he acknowledged to the police that he possessed child pornography on his computer. After his arrest, Couture employed a private investigator to gradually harass the contributor who served as the decoy for his chat log. Couture was found guilty on a felony count of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age. He was sentenced to four months in jail, three years of probation, and lifetime registration as a sex offender.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=jefe6
Malik Washington

> "Well, if you say you wanna take breaks and during the breaks, you wanna give me head, I should teach you that first."
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### Affiliation /Occupation

* Former manager at Game Stop
* Rapper

## Physical description

### Hair Color

Black

**Malik Kareem Washington** was a potential predator confronted in the Ocean County, New Jersey edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is well-known for wearing a *Spongebob* *Squarepants* jacket to the bust at the age of 27, as well as asking Chris Hansen if he can call him a ride home after travelling so long for nothing.

## Biography

Malik, 27 at the time, began chatting with "Paris," a girl he believed to be twelve. He wanted to take her virginity, give her anal sex (because [she] got a nice ass), as well as ejaculate in her mouth... expecting her to swallow. He would also clarify that anal sex meant "my dick up your butt". After just one day of chatting, Malik would confess he was falling in love with the decoy and call her "his princess" like someone else you know. He also said he would come with porn and condoms.

Malik on the day of his arrest with a laptop that had porn on it, would jump on a train, and then walk two miles to the beach where he met the decoy. Unlike many of the predators, he repeated his disturbing plans with the girl face to face. But when Chris Hansen came walking up the dune, those plans were shot. Malik would make the excuse that the only reason he came was that he likes to travel and he wasn't going to do anything, despite seconds earlier he expressed to Casey a desire for marathon sex. He immediately gets caught in a lie when asked his age and answers "seventeen", but couldn't do the math to subtract seventeen from 2007 (when the sting happened), or to add ten to 1980 when his alleged age is an easy ten years difference. Like Vaikunth Soundarajan, he tries to feign ignorance about not knowing that sex with a minor is rape. After being told he was part of a Dateline investigation, he has the audacity to ask Hansen to give him a ride home. He is refused, but was arrested soon after.

He would take a plea deal for no jail time, but be under lifetime parole and sex offender status.

## Behind the scenes/Post-Predator Activities

* Very little, if anything is available about Washington post-Dateline. He is a resident of the State of New York and their sex offender registry only shows medium to high risk offenders. Since his profile is not on their site, it can be assumed he has been qualified as a low-risk offender.
* TCaP YouTuber The Moast Worst did an investigation into Malik's activities post-Dateline. With help from Joey, he was able to find out Malik is now a rapper who goes under the stage name "Leaky Washington", even rapping about his exposure on NBC at one point about how he's "one of those n\*\*\*\*s whose dreams got shattered."

## Gallery

Two recent photographs of Malik, a.k.a Leaky WashingtonMalik's 2007 mugshot
John Mahon

**John Gardner Mahon** is a suspected predator involved in the Riverside, California edition of **To Catch a Predator.**

## Biography

John Gardner Mahon was born on May 22, 1950. A single father, he had two kids, who were born in 1988 and 1994, respectively. Over the years, Mahon had been in contact with a few of Jay Alternative's Perverted Justice decoys around Southern California. Due to scheduling, Mahon was never able to meet the decoys. But in January 2006, he discovered a decoy who was posing as "Luke," a thirteen-year-old boy. Mahon misrepresented his age, saying he was 45. Mahon's had the shortest chat in To Catch a Predator history. In the course of 23 minutes, he told the child he was from Arcadia, described him as hot, inquired whether he was a virgin, said they should meet in a hotel room for sex, and agreed to anally penetrate him "bareback" with "lots of lube." Mahon assured "Luke" that he would be "slow and gentle" when he was concerned that it would hurt.

## Behind the scenes

### Confrontation

Mahon was so determined to meet up that he called the decoy OnStar to direct him to the sting house when he got lost. When Chris Hansen urged Mahon to take a seat, he simply replied, "No," and left the residence before being quickly taken into custody by the Riverside Sheriff's Office.

### Aftermath

Mahon was originally charged with oral copulation with a minor under sixteen years of age and offender is 21 or more years of age and attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under fourteen years of age, both felonies. His bail was set a $50,000. Mahon was among the earliest predators to accept a plea deal. Authorities intended to spare him the typical Riverside predator's sentence of one to three years in prison because he had two children. He pleaded guilty to the latter charge in 2008, and was sentenced to 120 days in jail to serve on weekends, three years of probation, fees and fines, and lifetime registration as a sex offender.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-worst-predator-is-also-least-known.html
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=OjaiRadDad
3. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/booking/bookingcollage.html
Richard Watwood

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**Richard Mark Watwood** is a suspected predator featured in the Bowling Green, Kentucky edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is known for desperately needing to use the bathroom upon arriving, apparently being in such a rush to meet and molest a girl he didn't think to pull over and urinate once during his hour long journey.

## Biography

Watwood used Yahoo! Instant Messaging to communicate with a person he thought was a thirteen-year-old girl, but who was actually a Perverted Justice member and a participant in a Kentucky Bureau of Investigation undercover sting operation that exposed online sexual offenders. Between September 17 and October 18, 2007, Watwood had numerous conversations with the decoy. Watwood supplied photographs of his genitalia via webcam during the sexually graphic discussions. Watwood also suggested that they meet and that he could be her first sexual encounter.

Watwood drives across state lines from Tennessee to arrive at the sting house. When he arrived with Viagra tablets and condoms, Casey Mauro was waiting for him at the entrance. He settles into a lazy boy chair and asks to use the bathroom. Chris Hansen interrupts him but Watwood continues to insist that he has to use the bathroom. When Chris tries to ask him questions, Watwood walks out of the house and is taken into custody by the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation.

## Behind the scenes

Watwood chooses his right to remain silent when brought before investigators. Watwood was later charged with crossing state boundaries to engage in illicit sexual activity by the federal government since he came from Tennessee. Watwood remained in jail because he was never able to post bail for the accusations he was facing. He received a sentence of 46 months in federal prison and 7 years in a Kentucky state prison after being found guilty of both federal and state offences. He filed a lawsuit against the FBP in 2010 but lost. He was later freed from prison in 2019. Watwood will serve five years of probation and become permanently registered as a sex offender for life.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/police-news-man-gets-jail-time-following-sex-sting/article\_71049ed5-984e-5fe9-a391-90d5dcc7c824.html
2. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=singlemalestaynfit2000
3. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/04/to-catch-predator-update-bowling-green.html
William Havey

Havey's Riverside mugshot

**William Lawrence Havey** is an unaired suspected predator featured in the Riverside, California edition of To Catch a Predator. He is best known as being the only man acquitted in the sting.

## Biography

William Lawrence Havey was a 23-year-old Marine from the United States Marine Corps who served in Iraq. Although the specific details of his online conversation are not publicly accessible, it is evident that he used the screen name "jumpman27\_82" to make contact with a decoy from Perverted Justice who was posing as a 13-year-old girl. Before he could enter the sting house and meet Chris Hansen for an interview, the Riverside police apprehended him outside the sting house, swiftly placing him under arrest.

### Behind the scenes

Havey was charged with one felony count of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age, and his bail was set at $50,000. During a preliminary hearing in May 2006, Havey was ordered to stand trial. Havey's case was the first from the sting operation to go to trial in mid-August 2007. His attorney, Court Will, argued that his client never believed the decoy he interacted with online was 13 years old, as he had signed up for an adult-only chat room specifically designed for individuals over the age of 18. Will expressed that anyone who arrived at the sting house was already presumed guilty from the start, without further investigation. He expressed that he thought it wasn't "fair" and that he didn't think it was "justice."

In September 2007, due to a 10-2 deadlock in favor of acquittal from the jury, the trial ended in a dismissal by Judge Dallas Holmes of the Riverside County Superior Court. Judge Holmes expressed strong reservations about the prosecution's case against Havey, stating that he didn't like the "smell of this case." He also made critical remarks about the Perverted Justice witnesses, referring to them as "odd," "weird," and "repulsive." Linda Dunn, a chief deputy district attorney for Riverside, said that she and her office were "somewhat taken aback" by Holmes' comments, as she believed the case was robust and warranted a trial. Dunn also speculated that the jury's failure to find Havey guilty might have been influenced by his military background as a Marine instead of the judge's negative views towards the witnesses presented by Perverted Justice.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://willdefendwa.com/to-catch-a-predator-sex-stings-net-mixed-results/
2. ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/alt.true-crime/c/NxwIWHdR0yw?pli=1
3. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/booking/bookingcollage.html
Jean Erick Saintil

Saintil's profile picture at the time of the sting

"*If u fuck older guy before*"
―Saintil making his intentions clear in his chat
**Jean Erick Saintil** (or **Sean Erick Saintil**) is a potential predator involved in the Ocean County, New Jersey edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is known in the community for being one of the more elusive suspects caught on the show, as well as the contradictory information regarding his name.

## Biography

Saintil was a twenty-nine-year-old school bus driver for special needs children living in Philadelphia at the time of the sting. Using the screen name "erickbigdick", he started a conversation with a Perverted Justice decoy posing as a thirteen-year-old girl using the screen name "babigirl\_babygirl13". He made his intentions immediately clear, stating her age was fine as long as she wasn't a virgin and had sex with older guys before. His chat was a fairly standard predatory one, doing a risk assessment on how safe it would be for him to make the trip and have sex with the girl without getting caught or attacked by her pet dogs, claiming their sex would last for two or three days as he stayed for the weekend while her mother was at work, and trying to smooth talk the decoy to make her more comfortable with the situation. Most disturbingly, as if it was completely normal, he stated he would come on Friday instead of Thursday because he didn't have work on Saturday (driving children aorund the same age as the decoy to school).

When the time came, Saintil drove for an hour and thirty-seven minutes to the sting house. When he arrived, however, Chris Hansen was in the middle of interviewing another predator, Dwayne Chisholm. After catching a glimpse of the operation taking place, Saintil took off, only for Frag to alert the police, who pulled him over and took him into custody.

## Aftermath

Saintil was charged, convicted, and received lifetime parole and sex offender registration. His sex offender information cannot be found online and virtually nothing is known about his life post-Dateline.

## Trivia

* Because of his brief screen time and lack of a public registry, Saintil is one of the more elusive predators caught on the show. His name, for example, has been a subject of controversy, with many sources claiming it to be Sean, and Frag even mistakenly referring to him as James when he took off during the sting.
* A Jean Erick Saintil can be found on the Florida Sex Offender Registry, although this is not the same man. He was convicted in Florida (not New Jersey) in 2011 (not 2007), is significantly older than Saintil, and is listed as having been deported in 2017.
Kathryn Reed

**Kathryn Reed** was an investigator featured in the Bowling Green, Kentucky edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

Reed, an Investigator and Forensic Examiner at the time, worked for the Kentucky Attorney General's Office. She became involved with the Bowling Green, Kentucky edition of **To Catch a Predator**. She interviewed child sex predators John Elliott, James Travis Fowler, Jim Rauch, Paul Westwood, and Timothy Kyne. She became known for roleplaying as Elliott's wife during his interview and for yelling at Kyne after he continued to deny wanting to rape a thirteen-year-old-boy.

## Post-Predator Activities

According to her Linkedin, Reed worked as a Investigator and Forensic Examiner from June 1997 to July 2017.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-reed-68b0a615/
Brian Ruffino

**Brian Matthew Ruffino** was a suspected predator involved in the Flagler Beach, FL edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

On November 27, 2006, Brian, 25 years of age at the time, started a chat with a decoy named "Claire", whom he thought was a 13 year old girl. The decoy didn't respond to him that night. However, 3 days later, he tried again, and so the chat began. Brian asked the decoy what her bra size was and if she had any sexual experience. He later states he wants to come over and make out, get naked, and finger her. He drove to the sting house and was greeted by Chris Hansen. He flees and is immediately arrested by the police. When questioned by cops, he admits he had two small children at home, and one on the way.

## Behind the scenes

Brian pleaded guilty to Use Internet to solicit/attempt solicit etc. a child for sex/lewdness and Lewd or lascivious conduct victim under 16 years old by offender 18 years or older. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, lifetime registry as a sex offender, pay some fees and take some sex offender counseling. He was released in 2009. David violated his probation in 2016 and was sentenced to 3 years and a month extra in prison. He was released in December 2020.

## Gallery

Ruffino's 2023 RSO mugshotRuffino's 2007 mugshot
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=mandaringuy78
2. ↑ https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=58816&x=aa27ab32-f591-4a01-b24f-889670bdd804
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/02/to-catch-predator-update-flagler-beach.html
Jacob Cason

> *“I dunno for sure, but I hear a lil’ bit of talk ‘bout dis girl, she’s a actor, she’s twenty years old, ackshully.*
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**Jacob Joseph Cason** is an unaired suspected predator involved in the Fortson, Georgia sting. He is known for his strong ackshunt during the brief time he was shown on television.

## Biography

31-year-old Jacob Cason started a communication online with a decoy he believed to be thirteen-year-old girl. Immediately after starting the conversation, Jacob enquired about the girl's romantic relationship. Then he boasts that he earns $750 a week in salary and $1000 in overtime. Later, Jacob asked the girl if she shaved her legs and then told her to masturbate while expressing his desire to suck her genitalia and buttocks. He activates his webcam and starts masturbating in front of the decoy.

## Behind the scenes

Jacob drove three and a half hours to the sting house. He is only seen for a short amount of time during the episode. His only screen time in the second half of the sting, shows him walking into the sting house wearing a mechanic uniform. Then, he can be seen defending himself during his bond hearing claiming he heard the decoy was a twenty-year-old actor.

Jacob was originally charged with criminal attempt to commit child molestation, obscene Internet contact, criminal attempt to entice a child for indecent purposes, and furnishing obscene materials to a minor, all felonies. He later plead guilty to criminal attempt to commit child molestation and criminal attempt to entice a child for indecent purposes. For the criminal attempt to commit child molestation, he was sentenced to four years in prison and six years of probation. For the criminal attempt to entice a child for indecent purposes, he was sentenced to fifteen years of probation to be served consecutive with the other sentence. After his release from prison, he was required to register as a sex offender for life.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.tiftongazette.com/news/local\_news/men-arrested-in-sting/article\_1ee1536e-0031-53e9-a042-b879794a4fbf.html
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://missingchildprevention.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/there-she-goes-miss-america/
Fortson, Georgia

**Fortson, Georgia** located outside of Ft. Benning, was the sixth investigation of *To Catch A Predator***.**

## Plot synopsis

*20 men over four and a half days were exposed by the show, arrested, prosecuted, and ultimately sentenced.*

## Notes & trivia

* Due to its location, the show netted a number of men in the U.S. Military including Rolando Restocruz, Reymundo Anguiano, Brian Lindsey, and Marshall Gertmann.
* The men in this sting got stiffer sentences as compared to the other stings. On average, the suspected predators received seven years. Cody Green only received three years, while Marvin Harrison Smith got a staggering 25 years with thirteen to serve.
* Emily Bicks started as the female decoy in the sting, but had to leave partway through due to college commitments. She was replaced by "Amanda" for the remainder of the sting.

## Predators and Personnel

A list of people involved in the Fortson sting.

## See Also

* TCAP Episode S1E8 - Part 1 of Fortson, GA
* TCAP Episode S1E9 - Part 2 of Fortson, GA
Savio Noronha

**Savio Noronha** is a suspected predator confronted in the Ocean County, New Jersey edition of **To Catch a Predator.**

## Biography

Savio Noronha, 32, drove a white catering van that he had stolen earlier that day to the sting house in Ocean County, New Jersey to attempt to have sex with a thirteen-year-old girl. Casey Mauro portrays the decoy, who tries to lure the man inside the home. Savio ignores her attempts and tries to escape by driving in the wrong direction on a one-way street and riding on the shoulder. He is later arrested by police down the road. A New York City Police Officer called Lieutenant Mike Nevil of the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office the following day to inquire about the vehicle. On the van, they received a report of theft. And it turns out that Savio stole the car for himself to meet the decoy because he had access to the keys.

## Behind the scenes

Savio was not prosecuted with grand theft auto despite arriving in a stolen van to attempt to molest a child, and he was most likely acquitted of the charges against him since his chatlog is not posted on Perverted Justice's website.

## References

1. ↑ https://templeoftcap.freeforums.net/thread/1464/nj-predator-who-got-away
2. ↑ https://www.lostmediawiki.com/To\_Catch\_a\_Predator\_(partially\_found\_chatlogs,\_uncut\_interviews\_and\_police\_interrogations\_of\_Dateline\_NBC\_reality\_series;\_2004-2007)#cite\_note-50
3. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/04/to-catch-predator-update-ocean-county.html
Glenn Mitchell

## Glenn D. Mitchell

**Glenn D. Mitchell** is a predator caught in the Greenville, Ohio sting. He was the only man not to show up to the sting house.

## Biography

Glenn was first caught by Perverted Justice in 2003. Glenn would get in touch with a contributor whenever they set up a decoy in the Mid-West Region. He had a toll-free number that underage boys could use to contact him for free. In 2006, Glenn began a chat with a decoy named "Vance", who was posing as 14 year old boy. Five minutes into the chat, Glenn asked the decoy if he could meet him. He admitted to meeting and having sex with a 15 year old boy and 16 year old boy.

When he calls the decoy, Del Harvey pretends to be the boy, giving Glenn directions to the sting house. Glenn said he intended to repeatedly have sexual relations with the decoy and treat him as his "main woman." Glenn started traveling from Carmel, Indiana, to the sting house in Ohio. He did not make it to the house as he was got lost and was pulled over by an Indiana State Trooper. He wanted to go to the sting house, but was terrified to because of the encounter with the trooper. Glenn made a call to Del to set up a second meeting so he could see the roads during the day. The Greenville police put out an alert and Glenn is arrested in Indiana.

## Behind the scenes

Police raided Glenn's Indiana apartment after his arrest. They found child pornography and seized three laptops that contained videos and phone numbers that linked him to Darke County, Ohio. Glenn initially resisted being sent to Ohio through extradition, but Darke County eventually managed to do so. He was charged with felony Attempted Unlawful Sexual Contact with a Minor. He was found guilty of the charge and sentenced to 92 days in jail and three years of probation. Glenn was labeled a child sexual predator by Judge Jonathan Hein of the Darke County Common Pleas Court. Glenn must register with the sheriff's office in his county of residence every 90 days for the remainder of his life. Glenn moved to Illinois, where he was labeled a sexual predator. Later, he relocated from Illinois to Dark County, Ohio, where he is recognized as a Child Victim Predator.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.wthr.com/article/news/carmel-man-arrested-in-sexual-predator-sting/531-b44ffeb2-4857-4d35-ab40-3a68a659d0f4
2. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/11/to-catch-predator-update-greenville.html?m=1
3. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=User194547
4. ↑ https://isp.illinois.gov/Sor/Details/X07C2530?x=498763ab-c080-4b44-ae8e-da892b8e5f4e
5. ↑ https://www.icrimewatch.net/offenderdetails.php?OfndrID=1565031&AgencyID=55219&x=5b1998a7-c1af-4f0d-a201-e230ff1967d8