(WBAP/KLIF) — Undercover Tarrant county officers ran an online sting in search of sexual predators.
Officers posed as children as young as 13 and caught 9 suspects who arranged to meet the kids for sex.
The men ranged in age from 25 to 67 years old and were booked into jail on felony charges of online soliciting of a minor.
According to the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the operation was a joint effort of the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office, Texas Department of Public Safety and police departments from Fort Worth and Arlington.
- Paul Aceves, 67, of Grand Prairie.
- Yadav Manish, 27, of Fort Worth.
- Ladrick Mackey, 37, of Fort Worth.
- Matthew Wilson.
- Byron Cochran, 43, of Fort Worth.
- Mauro Garcia, 25, of Palestine.
- Chrisitan Boyles, 46, of Austin.
- Scott Fishbein, 42, of Fort Worth.
- Edrees Hmaiden, 39, of Arlington.
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