{"id":426546,"date":"2026-08-07T16:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426546\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:12:23","slug":"chris-hansen-of-to-catch-a-predator-was-part-of-the-sf-sheriffs-child-sex-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426546\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hansen of \u2018To Catch a Predator\u2019 was part of the SF sheriff\u2019s child sex bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Aug. 6, 2026at2:04pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5fHXyqQOKL8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">trailer (opens in new tab)<\/a> dropped Wednesday for the A24 biopic \u201cPrimetime,\u201d about controversial \u201cTo Catch a Predator\u201d host Chris Hansen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The same day, San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said his office had <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2026\/08\/05\/san-francisco-child-predator-suspects-charged\/\" data-post-id=\"dbf5dd9d-0604-461c-938a-90a3786e3e26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conducted a child sex sting operation resulting in the<\/a> arrest of five men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">What Miyamoto and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who has charged the men with attempting to meet a minor for lewd purposes, failed to mention was that the operation had been filmed for Hansen\u2019s show. According to the sheriff\u2019s office, Hansen was in the San Francisco home where the sting took place late last month, with a camera crew, confronting each man after his arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 6, 2026at2:04pm A new trailer (opens in new tab) dropped Wednesday for the A24 biopic \u201cPrimetime,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[37854,101,30139,103,102,104,106,105,5264],"class_list":["post-426546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-crisis-in-streets","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-district-attorney","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sheriffs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}