Delray Beach police say Joshua Hablo, 35, thought he was meeting a teenage boy for sex but was instead confronted by an ...
Some groups have gotten violent, creating concern among law enforcement. Some authorities have deemed citizens trying to catch predators as “cyber vigilantes.” Bikers Against Predators — a ...
A Yukon teacher is under investigation after a viral video showed a child predator-tracking group confronting him at his home ...
Instead, a team of civilian "predator catchers" — adult YouTubers who pose online as children in hopes of identifying ...
He approaches slowly and speaks calmly. He introduces himself as the face of "561 Predator Catchers," a group of adult YouTubers who pretend to be children online in hopes of luring so-called ...
Some suspect the blurred lines between police and predator catcher may undermine the very charges they've helped bring against suspects. Others who spoke to The Palm Beach Post said the group's ...
Several groups have formed in recent years to carry out citizen-led sting operations targeting suspected online child predators. Sergey Zolkin via Unsplash When Jason Velasquez set out to catch ...