Dateline - To Catch a Predator - Michael Vestal

Dateline - To Catch a Predator - Michael Vestal - Petaluma, California

Police hope recent sting operation will keep sexual predators away; neighbors of house used for arrests express few complaints about operation.
They enter Internet chat rooms, actively searching for sexual conversations and graphic photo exchanges — and ultimately, direct encounters — with children.

Far too often, they are successful.

But the online exchanges often are a mix of fact and fiction as both sides try to enhance their desired image, and it's possible to get stung.

And on the weekend of Aug. 25-27, 29 men were very, very badly stung in Petaluma.

The men were lured to an eastside home by the Petaluma Police Department's Special Operations Division and Perverted Justice, a nationwide volunteer organization that monitors online Web sites and chat rooms as it tries to identify and expose sexual predators. These men subsequently were charged with lewd and attempted lewd and lascivious acts involving children, which can result in a prison term of 18 months to four years, and with burglary/entry with intent to commit a felony, which can bring a two- to six-year jail sentence. Some of the men had criminal histories, and were charged with other crimes, as well.

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[savagez8829]

I worked with this guy, about 4 years ago, we all thought he was a weird sick freak back then. Wow what a trip, to see it all come true!!!!

[jcb1972]

Anyone fucking stupid enough to use their real life name as their screen name is an utter failure.

[roadzshow]

You have to love the pedo-stache. Geico needs it for their brostache app ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

[roadzshow]

I'm hoping for a warning... nice try BITCH!!!!!

[mnemrod]

Just look at that pedostache!!! When I see a stache' like that i'm thinking Cop, Fag, or Pedo!!!

[YellowManOnMoon]

facebook(dot)com/mike.vestal LOOOL

[tsb049]

I wonder if he's with the same girl still as he has on his facebook.

[cheesecrackersgame]

i just really wanted to be on this show ;[

[irkiIIer]

dude if ur a sex predator just ask the girl to your own house or something

[irkiIIer]

wtf

[neballar]

@UrielEternal Idiot..