ruffino decides to come to the undercover house. so what do you want to do? i don t care. do you have any ideas? well, i think i m going to go change then. brian, i ve got some ideas for you. ruffino clearly doesn t want to hear them. get on the ground! which pocket is your key in? i think it s the front one. but he will be talking to the police. what we wanted to talk to you about is what brought you to flagler beach today. ruffino tells the investigator he has two small children at home and another on the way. so why would he come to visit an underage teen? you guys talked and made arrangements for you to come here and have sex together. it wasn t sex. ruffino says it s all a misunderstanding. yeah, you said, you know, you were going to do some sexual things. okay, i didn t know what you meant by yeah. like fingering and stuff like
what s on the agenda for tonight? hidden cameras are rolling, the suspect s running and police are ready. get down! get down on the ground. we arrested a very significant number of pedophiles. it s a new investigation. chris hansen with to catch a predator. you d think they d know by now. suspected predators on the web, then at the door. thanks for joining us. i m stone phillips. i m ann curry. this time we re in long beach, california, where the long arm of the law has reached out and grabbed more than three dozen men in just three days. chris hansen has the latest. again, we want to warn you, some of what you will see and hear is explicit. hey, come on in. this way. how are you doing? looks like you fell asleep. kind of. how was your drive? long. 22-year-old cory blagg is walking into dateline s undercover house in long beach, california. a house with 15 hidden cameras. they re recording every move he makes.
year in iraq. he s been chatting with a decoy posing as a 15-year-old, using the screen name high excitement, he sends the girl a link and for her to view pornographic pictures. and asks her, what do you think? then asks, do you like it? later, he makes plans to come over and go skinny dipping. just have a seat. if i don t put this in right away it gets all wrinkled. you can just take a seat. i ll be right there. i hate laundry. as he s walking in, he seems to spot our crew. i m leaving. and takes off. get on the ground! get on the ground, now! yes, sir. please do not move. while he never tells us his side of the story, later he speaks at length to investigators. you brought up the fact of going skinny dipping in the swimming pool with a 15-year-old girl. yes, sir. back at the house, here comes another soldier, an army staff sergeant who served a tour in iraq. 33-year-old rolando restocruz.
you work for a company that owns the rig? yes. how do you think they would take to the fact you re out driving that rig around going to meet a 15-year-old girl? they was looking it s a bad note. like the way it actually looked. you know it was wrong. it was foolish. it was foolish? it was the wrong thing to do and it won t happen again. i know you ve got a job to do. i see it all the time. see what all the time? news reports. you ve seen stories on television news about guys coming to meet underage kids. yes, sir. i m chris hansen with dateline nbc. we re doing a story on adults who try to meet young teens on the internet. if there s anything else you d like to tell us, we re happy to hear it. if not, you can walk out the door you came in. i just told myself i wanted to talk to her, stay away from the sexual overtones. the 41-year-old leaves the house. and you know what happens next. get on the ground. now. all the way down. all the way down. yes,
first lieutenants don t make bad judgment calls. not always. not always. he insists he had no plans for sex with the young teen. honestly, no, i would never let myself do that. you let yourself internet chat with a 15-year-old. yes, sir, i know. you let yourself come over to a house where there was only a 15-year-old in it. yes, sir, i know. you expect me to believe you didn t expect to get laid while you were here? sir, no, i don t expect you to believe it, no. knowing myself, no, i wouldn t let it go that far. to that extent, sir. he did allow himself to send a girl he thought was underage a link to a pornographic website. you provided a 15-year-old child with a pornographic website she could go to? yes, sir. why would you do that? i don t really have a good explanation of why.