Detectives with the Lakeland Police Department arrest a Tampa man, after he arranged for and then traveled to have a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n
\u00a0On July 14, 2026, 48-year-old Fozi Nagi Al-Zokari initiated a text conversation with a Lakeland Police Department undercover detective in response to a post of who he believed to be a parent that was trying to prostitute their 14-year-old daughter. Al-Zokari and the undercover detective continued communication for multiple days.<\/p>\n
During the message exchange Al-Zokari agreed to travel to Lakeland and pay $200 for sex with who he believed to be 14-year-old female.<\/p>\n
On July 22, 2026, at approximately 10:00 p.m., Al-Zokari arrived at the designated meeting place and was taken into custody. During a search of Al-Zokari\u2019s person, detectives located $300, two unopened packs of condoms and plastic baggies containing Methamphetamine.<\/p>\n
Further located in the back seat of the vehicle was a black suitcase. Inside the suitcase was a bag with several sexual toys and one large hatchet.<\/p>\n
Al-Zokari was transported to the Polk County Jail and booked in on the following charges: Human Trafficking Forced Sex Trade \u2013 Victim Under 18 (Life Felony), Use a Computer to Solicit Parent Guardian (F3), Traveling to Meet Using a Computer to Solicit Guardian (F2), Unlawful Use of 2-Way Communication Device (F3), Possession of Methamphetamine (F3) and Possession\/Use of Drug Paraphernalia (M1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives with the Lakeland Police Department arrest a Tampa man, after he arranged for and then traveled to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[115,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-353614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353614","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=353614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}