{"id":37003,"date":"2023-10-10T13:55:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=37003"},"modified":"2023-10-10T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:55:37","slug":"polk-county-sheriff-grady-judd-to-brief-media-on-the-arrest-of-6-men-linked-to-a-child-sex-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/10\/10\/polk-county-sheriff-grady-judd-to-brief-media-on-the-arrest-of-6-men-linked-to-a-child-sex-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd to Brief Media on the Arrest of 6 Men Linked to a Child Sex Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/grady-judd.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22737\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd will provide details this Tuesday afternoon about a multi-law enforcement agency, a seven-day undercover investigation focused on sexual predators who target children, solicit children online, and travel to an undercover location to sexually batter children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the initiative, detectives posed as children and guardians of children on social media platforms, mobile apps, and online dating sites to investigate those who prey upon and travel to meet children for unlawful sexual activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PCSO worked with a number of other law enforcement agencies during the investigation, including the Lakeland Police Department, Tampa Police Department, Lake County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detectives arrested six men, including an after-school daycare teacher for an Apopka elementary school, the owner of a house cleaning business, a laborer, and an Uber driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will update this story following the press conference this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd will provide details this Tuesday afternoon about a multi-law enforcement agency, a seven-day undercover investigation focused on sexual predators who target children, solicit children online,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[6262],"class_list":["post-37003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-polk-county-sheriff-grady-judd-to-brief-media-on-the-arrest-of-6-men-linked-to-a-child-sex-operation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}