you ll meet tonight aren t just coming for the sun, sand and surf. hands behind your back. as you ll soon see, some seem ready to make waves. some of them potentially dangerous. flagler beach, it seems, is a town ready to take on potential sex predators. officer kevin panata explains the kinds of complaints his department has been hearing. older gentlemen going to our beach. you know, not much of a crime staring at people. when they start making advances towards, you know, the young generation in our city, it causes concern. having seen dateline s investigations, panata decided to conduct his own experiment. he set up his own decoy profile online in local chat rooms, posing as a 14-year-old girl named jenna. screen name flaglerbeauty14 female. within about five, ten minutes the screen was just cluttered with instant messages, you know, e-mails. it was just unbelievable. over just two days panata received messages from more than 100 people, mostly older men,
he responds i won t, sweetie. i can t. i d go to prison, and that s like a death sentence. inmates hate cops. they try to kill them in prison. after all this, we think he s not coming. little do we know that he s decideded to go ahead and make the long drive. when he arrives in the flagler beach area, he calls the decoy from a pay phone. perverted-justice alerts officer kevin panata of the flagler beach police. panata meets the other officers back at the darkened undercover house and sees spikes driving by. he actually circled the house numerous times. then, as spikes seems to drive away, the police stop his car and place him under arrest. as it turns out, we may have been lucky he never made it inside the house. after we actually took him out of the vehicle, he advised us that he had a firearm on him. that firearm happened to be a snubnose revolver in his front
was a cop for 15 years. but he tells her he quit being a cop to work in a family business. spikes seems well aware that what he s talking about is illegal. when the decoy writes you better not tell anyone. he responds i won t, sweetie. i can t. i d go to prison, and that s like a death sentence. inmates hate cops. they try to kill them in prison. they try to kill them in prison. after all this, we think he s not coming. little do we know that he s decided to go ahead and make the long drive. when he arrives in the flagler beach area, he calls the decoy from a pay phone. perverted-justice alerts officer kevin panata of the flagler beach police. panata meets the other officers back at the darkened undercover house and sees spikes driving by. he actually circled the house numerous times. then as spikes seems to drive away, the police stop his car and place him under arrest. as it turns out, we may have been lucky he never made it inside the house.
year. get out. out. i m not running. get on the ground. i m not running. get over here. but some of the visitors you ll meet tonight aren t just coming for the sun, sand and surf. hands behind your back. as you ll soon see, some seem ready to make waves. some of them potentially dangerous. flagler beach, it seems, is a town ready to take on potential sex predators. officer kevin panata explains the kinds of complaints his department has been hearing. older gentlemen going to our beach. you know, not much of a crime staring at people. when they start making advances towards, you know, the young generation in our city, it causes concern. having seen dateline s investigations, panata decided to conduct his own experiment. he set up his own decoy profile online in local chat rooms, posing as a 14-year-old girl named jenna. screen name flaglerbeauty14 female.
he responds i won t, sweetie. i can t. i d go to prison, and that s like a death sentence. inmates hate cops. they try to kill them in prison. after all this, we think he s not coming. little do we know that he s decided to go ahead and make the long drive. when he arrives in the flagler beach area, he calls the decoy from a pay phone. perverted-justice alerts officer kevin panata of the flagler beach police. panata meets the other officers back at the darkened undercover house and sees spikes driving by. he actually circled the house numerous times. then as spikes seems to drive away, the police stop his car and place him under arrest. as it turns out, we may have been lucky he never made it inside the house. after we actually took him out of the vehicle, he advised us that he had a firearm on him. that firearm happened to be a snubnose revolver in his front pocket, loaded and ready to fire.