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Christopher Edward Hansen is an American television personality best known for his work on the Dateline NBC television segment To Catch a Predator.
These investigations revolve around catching Internet sex predators using a sting operation. He also attended Michigan State University where he received his degrees.
In March 2007, Hansen's book To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home was released in the American market amid generally positive reviews.
2009 is here, and we're still kicking out arrests and convictions like we always do. While we posted conviction number 300 in fall 2008, we actually have another 100+ unposted convictions already, with plenty of other cases still in the legal pipeline. You can expect a landslide of further examples of why you shouldn't let your kid run around unsupervised online in the coming days.
We're looking at a good start to the new year. One of our goals is to document the work we've done as we march toward our fifth anniversary of getting internet predators arrested and convicted. There are a lot of milestones that people don't know much about, such as our work in 2008 helping nab a top ten FBI most wanted fugitive, to the scope of our work doing group sting operations and individual "information first" arrests.
As always, we're a volunteer organization so if you have some time on your hands and want to help out... hey, nothing like a new year to dive in feet first. Check out our non-profit foundation portal page at PJFI.org for more information. Thanks for stopping by and happy new year!
Ron Rivera, aka Banditcap7, gets fifteen years
Today we learned that Banditcap71 was sentenced to fifteen years in federal prison for molesting a young boy in North Dakota. The case of Ron Rivera aka Banditcap71 was one of the most disturbing and harrowing that we have come across.
Rivera had solicited one of our decoy profiles sexually and we were working on getting him arrested in Suffolk County, New York.
During the conversation, Rivera asks our decoy if he'd like to know how he's "safe." He then brings in a 13 year old boy from North Dakota that he'd previously molested into the conversation.
We investigated to see if the boy was real and he was. We located him and turned the information over to the police. From there, Rivera was convicted on the charge of solicitation from his conversations with us... and then sent to North Dakota for charges of sexual abuse.
Rivera's case is now finished, he received fifteen years in federal prison for crossing state lines to molest the actual young boy he had already met online. We're very happy to know that he will no longer be prowling on the internet for kids and that he will have a good spell in federal prison.
For more information on an amazingly bizarre case,Read his chat-log and conviction file.
Child predator sting yields 7 arrests
By Tim Sturrock - tsturrock@macon.com
Seven men arrested in Twiggs County sting Seven arrested in sting Seven men have been arrested in a sting operation designed to nab child Internet predators by using volunteers posing as teenage girls, Twiggs County sheriff's officials said Thursday.
Deputies teamed up with a group called Perverted Justice, whose volunteers posed as 13- and 14-year-old girls on Web sites such as Yahoo.com and Myspace.com.
Deputies arrested Shaharyar Rashid, 24, of Marietta; Jeffrey F. Pansino, 36, Doraville; James Ronald Cosby, 62, Douglasville; Robert Elton Hill, 64, Hazlehurst; Kenneth Mack Smith, 54, Villa Rica; Casey Stephen Dykes, 26, Cochran; and Daniel Eric Bowman, 30, Covington.
The men are charged with a variety of violations such as computer child exploitation online and obscene Internet contact with a child. Bowman was a former high school coach, and Hill was a youth mentor at a church, investigators said.
From March until July 1, deputies arrested the men, three of whom went to Twiggs County believing they were going to meet with children but were met by law enforcement instead, Sheriff Darren Mitchum said.
Investigators said they didn't publicize the arrests initially because they were working on an eighth case in which a man still has not been arrested. The local law enforcement agencies where the men live were notified, he said.
Mitchum said deputies began their investigation in February and hope the operation is a deterrent.
"You better know what you're dealing with because it may not be a child - it may be us you're talking to," he said. "We're going to protect the children in Twiggs County any way that we can."
Mitchum said when he came into office in 2005 his investigators didn't know how to work on a case like this, but they learned during this investigation.
The accused all initiated conversations about sex with the volunteers, and Mitchum said he had no problems with how the men were deceived.
"If they're willing to drive from their homes 80, 100 miles away to another place supposedly to meet what they believe is a 13-year-old child to have sexual relations with them they stepped right into it," he said.
Mitchum said he discussed the sting with Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney Craig Fraser before going forward with it. Perverted Justice is a nonprofit watchdog group that works with "Dateline NBC's" television series titled "To Catch a Predator."
Mitchum said seeking out Internet predators is important to decreasing Internet-related sex crimes.
"It's going on every day and if we sit back and wait for someone to complain about it it may be too late," he said.
To contact writer Tim Sturrock, call 744-4347.
***** CHARGES IN THE CASE According to the Twiggs County Sheriff's Office, the following have been charged in the case:
Shaharyar Rashid, 24, of Marietta, was arrested March 3 and is charged with criminal solicitation, criminal attempt to commit child molestation, electronically furnishing obscene material to minors, enticing a child for indecent purposes and violation of the computer pornography and child exploitation act of 1999.
Jeffrey F. Pansino, 36, of Doraville, was arrested June 22 and is charged with four counts of computer child exploitation online, three counts of obscene Internet contact with a child, two counts of electronically furnishing obscene material to a minor, one count of criminal attempt to commit child molestation and one count of criminal attempt to commit aggravated child molestation.
James Ronald Cosby, 62, of Douglasville, was arrested July 1 and is charged with two counts of computer child exploitation online, one count of obscene Internet contact with a child and one count of criminal attempt to commit child molestation.
Robert Elton Hill, 64, of Hazlehurst, was arrested April 27 and is charged with 11 counts of computer child exploitation online, three counts of obscene Internet contact with a child and one count of electronically furnishing obscene material to a minor.
Kenneth Mack Smith, 54, of Villa Rica, was arrested April 21 and is charged with three counts of computer child exploitation online, three counts of obscene Internet contact with a child and one count of electronically furnishing obscene material to a minor.
Casey Stephen Dykes, 26, of Cochran, was arrested May 1 and is charged with six counts of computer child exploitation online and two counts obscene Internet contact with a child.
Daniel Eric Bowman, 30, of Covington was arrested May 1 and charged with two counts of computer child exploitation online and two counts of obscene Internet contact with a child.
Breaking News: Conradt had child porn
The story of Louis Conradt Jr. and why he killed himself just became far more clear. The media has certainly spun enough "theories" as to why Conradt shot himself. Some in the media blamed us, some in the media blamed Dateline NBC, some in the media blamed the police who conducted the search warrant in Texas. Of course, none in the media actually did much of an investigation. Had they done so, they would have discovered something that renders all the idiotic conjecture we've had to deal with moot...
Louis Conradt had a large child pornography collection. Louis Conradt didn't shoot himself because he solicited an underage male decoy, he shot himself because he knew his secret life of pedophilia and child pornography was about to catch up with him. While none in the media seemed to care to dig for it, NBC news has uncovered the forensics report of the material found on Conradt's computer after his suicide. The result? Child pornography.
At the end of the day, Louis Conradt knew his secret life was about to be exposed. This prosecutor knew he was looking at more than a conviction for solicitation, he was looking at hardcore jail time due to his collection of child pornography. He knew the law, he knew the consequences. He didn't have time to delete his hard drives and the evidence because the police moved quickly and properly to secure his residence and the evidence. We will have full coverage of this important breaking news over the next few days, as we analyze the failure of various media sources in actually uncovering the truth about Louis Conradt.
Literally, reporters focused on writing "great crime fiction" rather than reporting the actual story. Check back for more information in the coming days.
Meanwhile,we invite you to meet Louis Conradt Jr and discover the disturbing solicitation he attempted on what he thought was an underage child. We're sure that you will agree that this man was clearly out of control.
Expansion: How to deal with creepy people
Perverted-Justice.com is happy to announce yet another expansion project. Our three administrators have been busy creating a new website that covers a different area regarding the issue of predators in general.
Today we've launched a website called HowtoDealwithCreepyPeople.com. As you can tell from the title, it's all about how to deal with creepy people. This website was built and constructed for teenagers. We looked around online at all the other websites cautioning teens and hey, great effort... but a lot of them miss the mark in our opinion. We've built this informational website with an eye towards making it accessible towards teenagers and are committed to using the real feedback of parents who show the website to their teens to improve it even more.
The goal is to create a website that teens actually would like to read, that doesn't talk down to them. We obviously can't set up such resources here as some material on this website isn't meant for teen consumption, but the new website is built from the ground up to be accessible and safe for kids to read.
Be sure to check it out and show it to your teens. If they have feedback they'd like to give, they should definitely send an email to feedback@howtodealwithcreepypeople.com.
Your feedback is very vital and we hope that everyone who has asked us for tips, tricks and advice for teens is satisfied by the work that has gone into this latest expansion to our family of websites.
For those of you wondering why I talk so much about PeeJ: I volunteer for Perverted Justice. I think what PeeJ does is awesome and I hope that everyone visits the site, perverted-justice.com, and checks them out.
Maybe volunteer for one of the many positions they have(decoy, verifier etc):
How to become a "Contributor":
Still, most volunteers want to become contributors. The Good News is that we want you to enter our training program and become one! We want you to succeed, but the Bad News is that you're going to have to put the time in on our volunteer center. It doesn't mean that you have to spend all your time working entry-level volunteer positions, but it does mean that you have to become a part of the community. How do you become part of the community? By visiting, posting and interacting on a good regular schedule.
We don't demand people log-in daily, but keeping abreast of organizational happenings and keeping integrated is very important. Once you have been a member for four months and have at least 200 posts, we ask our volunteers to make sure they send in a Junior Contributor Application to make sure they're being noticed and discussed for possible inclusion into the training program. The application makes sure that each volunteer who is interested is considered. There's thousands of volunteers, so it's important that you make yourself noticed by sending in the application once you qualify.
Remember though, while being a chat contributor is the most "known" position on the website to the general public, there are many other volunteer positions that are just as important. Let yourself find your niche and then decide what you want to do long-term as a volunteer for our organization. I hope you take the time to visit the site and check it out. It's worth it.
Despite an ignorant and mouthy defense attorney who thought it would be a good idea to attack us rather than defend his actual client, a jury took only 22 minutes to convict Reymundo Anguiano on both counts he faced. Reymundo was then immediately sentenced to seven years in prison with eight years of probation.
The defense attorney, who our operatives that were in court testifying described as looking like "a cross between Yoda and a puffed-up frog", had attempted to smear our reputation and our work, to try to make the jury dislike what we do. He went on and on with the same old bluster. The jury was intelligent enough not to bother with the idiotic ramblings of the defense attorney and saw that his client was a dangerous sexual predator.
There are now only two cases remaining from the Georgia sting. It will be interesting to see if those juries manage to break the speed record of the Anguiano jury on reaching the same verdict. The Anguiano log will be posted in the coming weeks as we continue to wrap up every case in the Harris County, Georgia sting successfully.
We invite you to meet Louis Conradt Jr. As long-time readers of the website know, back in November 2006 a child predator named Louis Conradt Jr. hit up what he thought was a thirteen year old boy and made sexual propositions. Police then went to his home to run a routine search warrant as it was noted that Conradt Jr. was deleting evidence.
Conradt Jr was a district attorney and well aware of how such cases go. Rather than face a criminal proceeding, he decided instead to shoot himself in the head. Since then his sister has smelled money and tried to keep his story in the news. Some of you coming here have read about her attempts to make cash off her brother's suicide.
Since you're getting one side of the story, we invite you to...
Invitation: Meet Louis Conradt Jr.
As we've written, people never want to take responsibility for the actions of their "loved ones." Conradt Jr. decided not to open the door when police knocked on it. Conradt Jr. decided it was more important to try to destroy evidence. Conradt Jr. decided to shoot himself in the head because he knew his sick web of lies and deceit were finally crumbling all around him. So meet Louis Conradt Jr. and know exactly what he tried to do. Listen to the phone recordings. And once you meet this man, you'll know exactly why we've never lost sleep at night over his decision.
100 convictions in 2007... already!
With the posting of the Michael Seibert conviction on August 18th, we have posted 100 convictions so far already in 2007. In 230 days so far this year, we've posted the results of 100 convictions/sentencings. That is a conviction result every 2.3 days on average.
In 2006, we had 81 convictions for the year. We were very happy with that number. To have our evidence result in 100 convictions for 2007 by... August... is simply unbelievably cool. In the last twelve months, if you go back to August 18th, 2006... we've posted 148 convictions/sentencings. On average, well over ten a month.
When we started in the summer of 2003, we thought we might get an arrest... maybe. People who didn't like what we were trying to do said we'd never get an arrest, NEVER get a conviction! Now, we're breaking triple digits in far less than a years time. The best part? We still have roughly four and a half months left in the year. These results are grassroots, volunteer-driven and extremely unique.
We said we wanted to become a "Conviction Machine", but even we could not have imagined these results. Thanks to all the volunteers and supporters who have stayed true in the fight against internet predators. You all share in this milestone.
