{"id":252801,"date":"2026-04-16T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252801\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:16:09","slug":"tried-to-solicit-sex-with-children-under-17-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252801\/","title":{"rendered":"Tried To Solicit Sex With Children Under 17 Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ten men were arrested during a three-day undercover operation aimed at adults who investigators say tried to solicit sexual contact with children under 17 on the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fort Worth Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fortworthpd\/status\/2044507654664434073?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:led;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;led&quot;}\" class=\"link \">led<\/a> the multi-agency sting, dubbed Operation Spring Cleaning, which ran from April 1 to April 3. Participating agencies included the Tarrant County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Texas Department of Public Safety, Crowley Police Department, Carrollton Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Secret Service, and the FBI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nine additional suspects remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Those arrested were identified as Jose Montalvan, 41; Stephen Milliken, 30; Humberto Aldana Caballer, 23; James Klump, 61; Jordan Kammerer, 26; Joel Stroud, 33; Santiago Luque-Calix, 28; Jose Morales-Puentes, 25; Michael Schweitzer, 48; and William Johnson, 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities used multiple online platforms to identify and track the suspects. More details about the cases were not released because of their ongoing nature and sensitivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police used the announcement to urge parents to monitor their children\u2019s online activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis operation is a strong reminder that law enforcement is already working to find anyone using the internet to target children,\u201d Fort Worth police said in a social media post, \u201cand to encourage parents to always be involved in who your children might be communicating with online or through social media platforms. Through continued collaborations, we remain committed to protecting our most vulnerable and holding offenders accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officer Daniel Segura said the department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/10-arrested-fort-worth-child-predator-operation\/4010927\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:maintains;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;maintains&quot;}\" class=\"link \">maintains<\/a> a dedicated focus on such threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe are continuously working in protecting our young children,\u201d Segura said, per WFAA. \u201cThose officers are assigned full-time to keep an eye on these suspects and these people who want to harm our children, and we\u2019re going to go after them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten men were arrested during a three-day undercover operation aimed at adults who investigators say tried to solicit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[95557,95556,116,118,117,3737,19667,95559,95558,9216,6877],"class_list":{"0":"post-252801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-carrollton-police-department","9":"tag-crowley-police-department","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","12":"tag-fort-worth-news","13":"tag-fort-worth-police","14":"tag-homeland-security-investigations","15":"tag-humberto-aldana-caballer","16":"tag-jose-montalvan","17":"tag-office","18":"tag-texas-department-of-public-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}