The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office arrested nine men on Wednesday as part of an investigation into suspected child predators who were attempting to have sex with children in their early teens.
The undercover sting “Operation C.A.K.E.” started on May 25, and involved Osceola detectives posing as minors to locate online predators who wanted to have sex with children who were either 13 or 14 years old.
When offenders showed up meet up with who they thought with minors, they were met instead by law enforcement officers and arrested according to Osceola investigators.
The nine men have been arrested during “Operation C.A.K.E.” were:
- Geraldo Caraballo-Rodriguez, 26
- Baldney Lasalle-Febus, 32
- Charles Brown, Jr., 21
- Jason Shaffer, 42
- Michael Boyette, 23
- Felix Zapata, 28
- Alex Hidalgo, 22
- Devontae Mathis, 22
- Damien Suhr, 40
“The sheriff would also like to remind parents to please monitor the social media and online accounts of their kids,” according to the Osceola Sheriff’s Office news release. “Predators exist and are looking for children to exploit.”
