Submitted: Aug 4, 2021 / 01:29 PM CDT / Up-to-date: Aug 4, 2021 / 01:29 PM CDT

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Seventeen consumers, many from across crucial Florida, have now been charged in a six-day undercover review into kid potential predators.

The busts comprise part of “Operation baby Protector,” carried out by several companies, WFLA records.

In accordance with the Polk region Sheriff’s company, 16 candidates originate around Clewiston, Davenport,Kissimmee, Orlando, Polk area and Zephyrhills, all-in Florida. One would be a visitor with the neighborhood from Los Angeles.

Sheriff Grady Judd said all of them designed to do sexual intercourse with which the two thought were girls and boys, but instead, the two seen undercover officers have been appearing as offspring on the internet.

“These were unpleasant, horrible, terrible visitors, as soon as you proceed through this, recognize that definitely, we can’t use the text these people made use of,” Judd claimed. “We clearly can’t demonstrate the photographs while the videos that they mailed to exactly what they thought comprise 13-year-old girls and tiny men.

One of the many suspects happened to be many Disney community people.

One couples, Savannah and Jonathan McGrew, wished to take part in a threesome with a 13-year-old woman and roleplay as stepparents and stepdaughter or even in a shoplifting situation, Judd stated. Both suspects labored as custodians at Walt Disney Hollywood Studios.

“Are an individual kidding me? That’s just how you’re talking to 13-year-old girls and boys,” Judd explained.

Another believe, Kenneth Javier Aquino, is a lifeguard at Disney animals realm hotel just who, Judd claimed, leftover his own expecting a baby girlfriend to own love with people he or she thought ended up being a baby. Judd mentioned he was wearing his work dresses as he concerned the undercover venue.

“He’s a Navy expert,” the sheriff believed. “That’s correct. He was operating toward a dive group or a SEAL organization or some sort of particular ops tasks. They did a back ground review him or her and discovered he’d family or associates which group users, and additionally they thrown your.”

Judd explained one believe is HIV-positive and designed to have got non-safe sex with a woman, although he couldn’t discover what.

“Fortunately, our very own investigators are there as opposed to the 13-year-old son or daughter. But here’s a fact? Received it become an inquisitive daughter as opposed to all of our extremely experienced detectives, she’d have already been right subjected to HIV,” he mentioned.

As a whole, the candidates face 48 crime fees as well as misdemeanors. The candidates, nine of whom bring violent records, are actually recognized as uses:

1. Kenneth Javier Aquino, 26, of Orlando — One count visiting fulfill a slight for gender, one count attempted lewd battery pack, one matter infection of product harmful to minor
2. Irving Oliver of Lakeland, 41, of Lakeland — One include touring satisfy a minor for love, one count friendfinder attempted lewd battery
3. Jarrod Justice, 33, of Los Angeles, Ca — One calculate going to see a minor for love-making, one depend attempted lewd battery
4. Lior Enbar, 31, of Orlando — One depend planning a trip to fulfill a for intercourse, one amount attempted lewd electric battery, giving untrue info to LEO
5. Joshua Ortega, 30, of Davenport — One count planning a trip to fulfill a slight for intercourse, one matter tried lewd battery, one number introduction of contraband into a detention premises, one include ownership of PCP, one amount ownership of paraphernalia
6. Julio Enrique Cedeno, Jr., 45, of Zephyrhills — Two matters infection of media harmful to slight, one calculate unlawful use of bidirectional communications product
7. Juan Guadalupe-Arroyo of Davenport — One depend planing a trip to satisfy a small for intercourse, one amount misrepresenting era online/use of computers to seduce a youngster, one depend attempted lewd battery
8. Carlos Flores, 36, of Orlando — One consider going to encounter a slight for love, one amount misrepresenting get older online/use of computers to seduce a youngster, one include tried lewd power
9. Enrique Medina, 47, of Orlando — One calculate visiting encounter a small for sex, one depend tried lewd battery
10. Adam Summers, 30, of Kissimmee — One calculate traveling to encounter a small for sexual intercourse, one consider tried lewd power
11. Jeremiah Davis, 27, of Clewiston — One depend planing a trip to fulfill a slight for sex, one number attempted lewd power supply
12. Thomas Snyder, 44, of Lakeland — One consider visiting fulfill a slight for sexual intercourse, one count attempted lewd battery pack, one number transmitting of product bad for minor
13. David Ring, 34, of Lakeland — One amount considering a visit to fulfill a slight for sexual intercourse, one include attempted lewd electric battery, four matters transmitting of substance damaging to minor
14. Philip Nelson, 27, of Polk City — One number planing a trip to fulfill a slight for love, one count tried lewd power
15. Jonathan McGrew, 34, of Kissimmee — One consider going to satisfy a slight for sexual intercourse, two matters transmitting of product harmful to small, one depend attempted lewd power supply
16. Savannah Lawrenc, 29, of Kissimmee — One consider planning a trip to meet a minor for love, one depend tried lewd battery
17. Edward McGaffigan, 37, of Orlando — One amount unlawful using a two-way connection gadget, three matters indication of material bad for minor