Polk County: 281 Arrests in Trafficking and Child Predator Operations

Result, we made 281 total arrests, 239 human trafficking-related arrest. Our child sex predators, 31, ladies and gentlemen. 31 came, travel to have sex with a child, and we're gonna highlight a few of those today.

In addition to that, there wa- there was prior charges. Now, some people go, "Oh, on the human trafficking operation, it's just a prostitution sting, and it's not, not that serious." Well, I think it's real serious when you think that those that showed up had a total of s- 798 previous criminal charges.

In addition to that, we gave them 488 new charges just to take with them as a kind of a present from us to them.

We had 17 theme park employees arrested, 17, and that's important to remember.

Yes, and who led the way? Disney. Disney had 13, Universal had four, and we're going to talk about a few of those later on today.

But these are people that were face-to-face with our children in the v- different disciplines inside these two organizations.

And you go, "Well, why do they work there?" Well, that's where the children are, and they want to be near children. And as a result, we arrested them with a great deal of work.

32 were illegal aliens. That's right. They were in this country inappropriately.

They came from Cuba, Peru, Italy, Venezuela, Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia.

So far, 16 have been transferred over to ICE.

The others are either in some stage of the process.

David Gritty will talk more about that in a few minutes.

But I want to read off, if you'll give me just a second before we get to our flashcards.

When you look at the child predator operation, and you look at the human trafficking operation, we made multiple arrests from not only outside of the county, but...

Not only outside the state, but across the world.

As I said before, Cuba, The Bahamas, Per- Peru, Ecuador, Italy, Haiti, India, El Salvador, Venezuela, Jamaica, Mexico, Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, the Ukraine, Philippines, Russia, Brazil. And then our states, Maryland,

Georgia, Oklahoma, California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, South Carolina, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Mississippi, Maine, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Arizona, Alabama, Louisiana, Michigan.

We had 239 arrests from Florida and 40 arrests from Polk County.

Now, they knew better, and they showed up anyway, and they found out.

You fool around, you find out. You poke around, you find out, and they found out. 36 of these folks were married, at least they were as of the time that they were arrested.

I don't know what their significant other thinks about them today.

Here's a idea... Here's an idea for you if you think that, oh, this is low-level, nonviolent, and we've heard all that before.

24 of the suspects brought firearms. 24 of the suspects brought firearms.

So we had to take firearms from those that we were investigating.

22 of them admitted to us that w- they were on federal assistance. Now, I want you to focus in on this for a minute, and our CFO's gonna talk a little more about this, but I want you to focus on this. You pay taxes, and then they provide federal assistance to these folks so that they can come and violate the law

while you're all out working, making money for them.

That's right. Over $100,000 a year. This is what they admitted to.

You see, the federal government hides that data.

They don't share that with us, so I would suggest to you many more of them were receiving federal assistance. This is all we could document.

Nine individuals were on probation. 31 individuals had prior prostitution charges, and nine of these folks were caught in our operations before. They enjoyed it so much they showed up again for another opportunity to go to the jail.

So we're gonna start with the worst of the worst, and that's our child sex pred- predators.

And I'm going to lead with the number one candidate.

This is Rashan Creighton. He's 31 years of age. He's a head coach of the Davenport Titans. That's a youth football league, and the children that play on that youth football league are between 11 and 14 years of age, and they're part of the Mid Florida Youth Conference of Football and Cheer.

So guess who he showed up to have sex with?

A 14-year-old little girl. The talk that he used was so graphic that we obviously can't talk, release that to you here today.

But he said, among other things, "Well, I can pick you up at school, and then we can have sex in the car. You see, we've got to be careful because just these texts will put me in jail."

And then when he arrived at this location, he brought, among other things, a battery-charged sex toy and a lot of other play toys to go with that.

Oh, did I tell you? He brought them in a Uber Eats delivery bag. You see, he used to deliver for Uber Eats.

So the next time Uber Eats shows up at your house, I wonder what was in that Uber Eats bag just before your McDonald's or your, uh, Taco Bell.

Yeah, think about that.