Deputies said the conversations continued for several months.<\/p>\n
According to the affidavit, the user repeatedly discussed meeting and engaging in sexual activity with the person he believed was a teenager.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the user also repeatedly expressed concern about the age difference and the possibility of getting in trouble.<\/p>\n
The affidavit said the user deleted some communications and told the undercover detective he did not want anyone to find out.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the user discussed meeting multiple times, including in March, April and May.<\/p>\n
According to the affidavit, the user told the undercover detective in April that he would meet him, but later said he had been pulled over on Interstate 4.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the user then asked if the teen could take an Uber to meet near his office on Park Avenue in Winter Park.<\/p>\n
The affidavit said the user also sent a photo of his office showing a brown table on a unique carpet.<\/p>\n
Investigators say records connected accounts to Chambers<\/p>\n
Investigators said they used search warrants and subpoenas to connect the Snapchat account, phone number and Telegram username to Chambers.<\/p>\n
According to the affidavit, Google records showed the account was connected to the name Alan Manning Chambers, a date of birth matching Chambers and email addresses associated with him.<\/p>\n
AT&T records also connected a phone number to an Alan M.L. Chambers Foundation with a billing address in Winter Park, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n
Deputies said they stopped Chambers on Tuesday near Aloma Avenue and Strathy Lane.<\/p>\n
According to the affidavit, Chambers told investigators he works at John Craig Clothiers in Winter Park and lives with his wife and two children.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Chambers confirmed the Snapchat account \u201cJDWP50\u201d and Telegram username \u201c@AlexWP74\u201d belonged to him.<\/p>\n
The affidavit said Chambers also confirmed he used the phone number investigators had tied to the undercover communications.<\/p>\n
When asked whether he communicated with any children, investigators said Chambers told them he communicated with one person he identified as a codename, who was 14 years old and whom he met on Snapchat.<\/p>\n
According to the affidavit, Chambers told investigators they discussed meeting but would not specify why.<\/p>\n
Deputies said Chambers later declined to answer more questions.<\/p>\n
Investigators served Chambers with a search warrant and seized a black iPhone and an Apple computer from his possession, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n
Chambers previously led Exodus International<\/p>\n
Chambers is the former leader of Exodus International, an Orlando-based organization that promoted so-called conversion therapy and claimed for years that people could change their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n
Channel 9 reported in 2013 that Chambers apologized to the LGBTQ community and announced Exodus International would shut down.<\/p>\n
At the time, Chambers said he was sorry for the pain the organization had caused and acknowledged that he had masked his own attraction to men.<\/p>\n
Chambers said in 2013 that he was \u201cvery, very sorry\u201d for the group\u2019s role in that pain.<\/p>\n
Local LGBTQ leaders told Channel 9 at the time that the closure was long overdue and said people who went through the program experienced shame and emotional harm.<\/p>\n
Channel 9 found the former Exodus International building in Altamonte Springs shut down, with the doors locked, lights off and the parking lot empty.<\/p>\n
The former headquarters was later listed for sale.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Channel 9 will have more on Eyewitness News starting at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n
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