VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Fourteen males have been arrested after a 3-day undercover operation that focused web predators, the Volusia Sheriff’s Workplace introduced.
The lads concerned within the undercover operation “Journey to Gavel” thought they have been messaging 13 to 15-year-old girls and boys.
One of many males arrested, a 25-year-old from Ocala, was additionally charged with aggravated battery, assault on a regulation enforcement officer, aggravated fleeing with damage, and resisting arrest with violence after accelerating this automobile right into a deputy and fracturing his leg.
One other arrest was a 45-year-old from North Carolina who was on trip together with his girlfriend and three youngsters, the Volusia Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
Others arrested are:
- Julio Cesar Actual Chavarria, 33, South Daytona
- Mathie Merveil Kouatonou, 29, Orlando
- Niegel George Johnson, 28, Daytona Seashore
- Moshe Josue Delgado Juarez, 25, Ocala
- Sourab Chilakamarri, 26, Daytona Seashore
- Reinaldo Ray Medina Jr., 31, South Daytona
- Carlos George Guebara, 51, DeLand
- Kenneth Leon Baldwin Jr., 39, Daytona Seashore
- Thomas Edward McKee, 39, Port Orange
- Patrick James Concree, 40, Kissimmee
- Francisco Javier Jurado, 33, Orange Metropolis
- Robert Scott Shipley Jr., 26, Vero Seashore
- Joseph Alan Williamson, 55, Port Orange
- Joshua Lee Walker, 45, Lexington, N.C.
The operation was a joint effort from VSO and the North Florida Web Crimes Towards Youngsters Process Power, Port Orange Police Division, South Daytona PD, Lake Metropolis Police Division-Lcflapd, Marion County Sheriff’s Workplace, FDLE, and State Lawyer, Florida’s seventh Circuit.