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OPERATION FOOL AROUND AND FIND OUT
POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday that 255 were arrested in a nine-day, multi-agency undercover investigation called“Fool Around and Find Out”that focused on human trafficking, child predators and illegal immigration.
Detectives said they worked with investigators from several different sheriff’s offices, police departments, Homeland Security, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the undercover investigation.
“This is the highest number of suspects we’ve ever arrested during a single undercover operation – in addition to these 244 arrests, we also arrested 11 child predators who solicited who they thought were children online in order to sexually batter them.
Adarius Taylor, a former NFL player who played for the Carolina Panthers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Cleveland Browns, was arrested in the operation.
“The dude made a lot of mistakes. He not only brought his 6-year-old child out to the operation, but he left his 6-year-old child in the car when he went to do the operation,” Judd said. “The 6-year-old child has a lot of mental issues, and he left this child alone, who should have never been left alone because of medical conditions.”
Deputies said nine suspects showed up at an undercover location in Polk County at separate times to sexually batter children.
Investigators said one of the suspects, identified as Gregory Cooper, sent social media messages to an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old boy.
The sheriff’s office said Cooper’s online dating profile said he was a “daddy looking for a younger boy.”
Of the 255 arrested, 36 were in the country illegally, according to Polk deputies.
One suspect was active-duty military and 13 were veterans.
https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/255-arrested-in-polk-countys-fool-around-and-find-out-undercover-investigation/
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