STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A significant arrest was made in Stuart, detectives saying they stopped a predator before he could harm a child.<\/p>\n
The Stuart Police Department announced on Thursday that detectives, working alongside the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, began an investigation in September when a man initiated online conversations with a Stuart Police Detective posing as a 13-year-old girl. Within days, the suspect acknowledged her age and location but continued sending sexually explicit messages while planning a trip from Boca Raton to Stuart to meet her.<\/p>\n
On the day of the planned meeting, Vincent J. Eterno, 48, arrived in Stuart expecting to meet the minor. Instead, he was greeted by Stuart Police Detectives and taken into custody.<\/p>\n
Eterno faces multiple criminal counts, including:<\/p>\n
Travel to meet a minor after using a computer to solicit, entice, or lure a minor to engage in illegal acts or unlawful sexual conductUse of a computer to solicit, lure, or entice a minor to commit an illegal act or engage in unlawful sexual conduct with a childUse of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony<\/p>\n
Authorities remind parents to monitor their children\u2019s activities and communications on computers, cell phones, gaming consoles, and tablets.<\/p>\n
See also: Truck driver accused in deadly Turnpike crash appears virtually; defense makes new demands<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThis arrest sends a strong message,\u201d Stuart Police said in a statement. \u201cWe will protect our children, bring predators to justice, and relentlessly continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter <\/a>to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel <\/a>for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A significant arrest was made in Stuart, detectives saying they stopped a predator before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-52606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52606","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=52606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}