'Zero brain cells left': Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says more than 200 arrested in human trafficking operation

A multi-agency operation led to the arrest of 246 people on charges ranging from human trafficking to using a computer to seduce a child.

Judd said two of the people arrested in the first investigation were arrested again.

"You know good and well that they have two brain cells. They used one on the first one and one on the second. They have zero brain cells left now," the sheriff said at a news conference Friday morning.

Polk County deputies worked with federal agencies and other local law enforcement agencies to charge a total of 89 felonies and 282 misdemeanors during the investigation.

Officials said 99 people were charged with soliciting prostitutes, including an Orange County Sheriff's Office law enforcement recruit. More than 100 people were charged with offering to commit prostitution and 15 were charged with traveling to meet a minor for sex or other child-sex-related crimes.

“Human traffickers are vile predators who exploit the vulnerable, and once again, a disproportionate number of those arrested in this sting were illegal aliens,” Attorney General James Uthmeier said. “Here in Florida, we will not give these traffickers the opportunity to destroy more lives.”

Here are the 15 men who were arrested during the sexual predator investigation:

Alberto Gonzalez Torres (48)

Louie Macalinao (62)

Anthony Ramos, Jr. (33)

Cameron Francis (30)

Hugo Dos Santos (39)

Jamal Jones (30)

Alier Aponte Rosa (51)

Trey Taunton (40)

Bharat Baichan (33)

Daniel Napoline (42)

Spencer Englehardt (26)

Detraun Vaughan (23)

Christopher Williams (31)

Jerry Siniard (50)

Robert Vincent Hill II (56)

Deputies said these suspects communicated with and solicited people they thought were children or guardians of children online. According to investigators, 14 of them showed up at an undercover location to sexually batter children. Three offered to pay an adult to have sex with their child, according to a news release.

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/grady-judd-james-uthmeier-trafficking-illegal-immigration-press-conference/67-87720a2d-8c6b-444b-8e2b-e3fbb815918c

Boston police officer indicted on child rape charges

Paul Downey, 58, was indicted Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court on four counts of aggravated child rape.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/19/metro/boston-police-officer-indicted/

Antisemitism? St Vincent’s heartless treatment of cardiologist who asked a question

Cardiologist Peter McDonald is on forced leave from his job of saving lives. He asked questions about Israel in a public forum and has been censored and condemned by St Vincent’s Hospital.

Dr Peter MacDonald helped pioneer transplant surgery in Australia and is a senior specialist in the Transplant Unit at St Vincent’s Hospital and co-head of the Transplantation Research Laboratory at its partner organisation, the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

He developed the ‘Heart in the Box’ that enables transplants using the hearts of brain-dead patients. He is a partner in a research program to develop treatments using the venom of funnel web spiders that could save the lives of many who have heart attacks. For 19 years, Professor Macdonald has visited the Condobolin Aboriginal Medical Centre every month.

But for two weeks now, his work to save lives has halted. He is on what is called ‘unspecified leave’. Macdonald declined to be interviewed for this article.

This week, the NSW Council for Civil Liberties expressed its concern that a person “in their private capacity, asked a question about an intelligence agency and has subsequently,” and

been targeted, censored and publicly condemned by their employer.

Macdonald would still be hard at work if not for the actions of a small group of pro-Israeli health workers called the Alliance Against Antisemitism in Healthcare (AAAHC) who have demanded Macdonald be “disciplined or terminated” following a 30 second long contribution to a Palestine Justice Movement Sydney (PJMS) forum where he identified himself as a cardiologist but did not mention his employing institutions.

Academic Alliance against Antisemitism

AAAHC is a branch of the Australian Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism (5A) that lobbied for the imposition of the Code of Conduct, which derailed the Bendigo Writers’ Festival last month by triggering authors to resign in protest. It promotes the IHRA definition of antisemitism and has asserted that it is antisemitic even to accuse Israel of being an ‘apartheid state’, a description widely adopted by human rights organisations and international lawyers.

The PJMS forum was organised to discuss the Australian Combat Antisemitism Mayors’ Summit that was held in early September on the Gold Coast. The panellists included Greens activist and lawyer Hannah Thomas, who is suing the State of NSW after police punched her in the eye at a pro-Palestinian protest; criminal barrister and podcaster Nick Hanna, and MWM’s reporters Yaakov Aharon and this author, who published stories on the Summit together.

https://michaelwest.com.au/antisemitism-st-vincents-heartless-treatment-of-cardiologist-who-asked-a-question/

4 Service Members Were Aboard US Army Helicopter that Crashed in Washington State

Four service members were aboard a U.S. Army MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that crashed near Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, the Army said in a release Thursday.

The Army did not release their conditions.

The helicopter was on a routine training mission when it crashed at about 9 p.m. Wednesday, an Army official said in a statement. The soldiers were part of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Airborne, officials said. The cause of the crash was under investigation, the Army said.

Read Next: Ex-Sailor Sentenced to 12 Years in Terror Plot Targeting Naval Station Great Lakes

“This remains an active, ongoing situation,” the release said.

The crash sparked a small wildfire that had grown to 1 acre (0.4 hectares) by Thursday morning, the Washington Department of Natural Resources said.

This is “currently a search mission” involving the “most professional and skilled addressing the situation,” Army spokesperson Ruth Castro told The Associated Press in an email. They were fully cooperating with law enforcement, she said. No details were released about the helicopter.

The base is about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Tacoma under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Joint Base Headquarters.

The Thurston County sheriff’s office, based in Olympia, posted online late Wednesday that deputies were dispatched to reports of a possible helicopter crash in the Summit Lake area, west of Olympia.

“We have been advised that the military lost contact with a helicopter in the area,” the department said. It said it was working with the base and that no further details were available.

Thurston County Sheriff Derek Sanders said on Facebook that deputies located the crash site, “but have been unable to continue rescue efforts as the scene is on fire.”

The King County Guardian 1 helicopter and special operation rescue units responded to the crash site, the sheriff said.

Staff with the state natural resources were working with multiple agencies, including the military and the local fire protection district, to battle the fire started by the crash, said Thomas Kyle-Milward, DNR wildfire communications manager.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/09/17/army-helicopter-crash-washington-state.html

>>23624441

> “If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI.”

Yeah follow the Anon's at 8kun they are way better than you guys at working hit out

plus they have balls so will speak truth to power