Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd will be joined by Florida’s CFO Blaise Ingoglia, as well as other agency heads, to detail the investigation at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. \u2014 Florida officials are set to discuss a multi-day undercover investigation that was focused on child predators.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, a total of 19 suspects were arrested in “Operation Child Protector VIII.” 16 of those suspects are charged with traveling to meet a minor for sex, and three were charged with human trafficking for offering to pay to have sex with a child.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officials say the oldest suspect that was arrested is 68 years old and “well-known” in Polk County due to his occupation and public appearances.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigators from several police departments, sheriff’s offices and the Florida Department of Financial Services Criminal Investigations Division were involved in the operation.<\/p>\n
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd will be joined by Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia, as well as other agency heads, to discuss the investigation at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Winter Haven.\u00a0<\/p>\n
10 Tampa Bay News will be livestreaming the press conference for free.<\/p>\n
\nFlorida officials to discuss child predator operation: How to watch live <\/p>\n
Go to the app store on Roku, Amazon Fire or Apple TVSearch for “10 Tampa Bay News”Select and download the free 10 Tampa Bay News appOnce you are in the app, click on the “Watch” icon\u00a0Click on the livestream <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd will be joined by Florida’s CFO Blaise Ingoglia, as well as other agency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-250472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}