Wacky Internet Predator Wednesday #73 – Au Revoir 2009
Ending 2009 with a bang… here is your final reason in 2009 why you need to make sure you are monitoring your child’s internet activity in 2010 and beyond with PC Pandora… I actually couldn’t find a news article for this one, but I trust this blog isn’t making things up: a 31-year-old Missouri man was busted in an online sting for sending naked photos and soliciting what he thought was a minor for sex!
Enjoy… and Happy New Year!
Monday, December 28, 2009
Springfield Man Charged In Stone County Internet Sex Sting
Posted by Kathee BairdOn December 23, 2009, Stone County Deputies with the assistance of the Greene County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant at the home of John Allen Grabber.
Grabber, 31, who was not at his Springfield home at the time the search warrant was executed, was busted as a result of an ongoing undercover sting operation to lure Internet predators.
Court documents say that Grabber started chatting with an undercover deputy in a Yahoo chat room on June 8, 2009. They go on to say that Grabber sent to photos of himself to the operative through Yahoo photo sharing before he sent a request asking the deputy posing as a girl to view him on web cam. It is alleged that Grabber sent pornographic images and engaged in a sexually explicit conversation with the cop posing as the teen.
Stone County prosecutor Matt Selby has charged Grabber with sexual misconduct involving a child.
He turned himself in to Greene County authorities on Christmas Eve and was released after posting $10,000 bond.
