32-year-old Mahesh Radhakrishnan, of
28-year-old Jerin Jolly James, of Celebration; on March 30, 2016, he arrived at the undercover location to have sexual intercourse with who he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. James brought condoms to the undercover location. After his arrest, he told detectives he wanted to talk to the girl in person and tell her how wrong talking with men online about sex was, and that he uses condoms with his wife. He told his wife he was going to 7-Eleven and instead drove to the undercover location.
He told detectives he is married and works as a technician
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Police: Men brought candy, condoms, narcotics, to have sex with kids
17 people were arrested during “Operation April Fools” which
was conducted March 29 through April 4 in
During the operation, undercover detectives posted fictitious ads or profiles on various social media platforms, websites, and mobile phone applications, posing as children, or as custodians of children.
Detectives say that despite the repeated warnings and media coverage of past operations, numerous men responded to the ads and then proceeded to chat online, email, text, and talk on the phone with the undercover detectives who posed as children or custodians of children online.
Some of the detectives responded to profiles and online ads. The suspects solicited who they thought were children as young as 13 years old for sex acts; two suspects solicited who they thought was the father of a 10-year-old girl to have sex with her.
Some suspects sent pornographic pictures of themselves, and some asked for nude photos of the children to be sent to them. Several of the men drove to the house to follow through with the promises made online to engage in sexual activity with the juveniles.
Most of the suspects traveled to an undercover location or to another meeting place. Detectives say nine suspects brought condoms, some brought candy, and some brought illegal narcotics to the undercover location.
Five suspects told detectives they were married. The youngest suspect arrested was 19 years old, and the oldest suspect arrested was 60 years old – the average age of the suspects is 28 years old.
Six of the suspects were from
Detectives say other suspects traveled from the following locations-
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4 traveled from
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1 lives in
Including the charges they face in this investigation, the suspects have a combined arrest history of 24 previous felonies and 24 previous misdemeanors.