Posted on 07/16/2006 12:55:53 PM PDT by RaceBannon
Plymout selectman nabbed in major sex sting
By Maureen Boyle, Enterprise staff writer KINGSTON In one of the largest stings targeting online predators in the area, 11 men including a newly elected Plymouth selectman were nabbed trying to meet what they thought was a 13-year-old girl.
Sean Dodgson, 45, of Plymouth, elected to the Plymouth board this year, was among the 11 men arrested Friday night and Saturday in Operation Trenchcoat, a two-month, undercover investigation involving state, local and federal authorities posing as children online. Dodgson, a West Point graduate, beat the incumbent this year by more than 100 votes. He owns a computer company.
Some of the men were arrested in the area of the now closed Bickford's restaurant in Kingston after making arrangements to meet the girl, one was arrested in Attleboro and others were arrested at their homes.
The men, ranging in age from 17 to 57, approached what they thought were 13 and 14 year old girls online and tried to lure them into a sexual encounter.
The online chats to the undercover agents were often graphic, detailing sexual acts that would be performed on the child, and continued for days, weeks and in some cases months.
The suspects were booked at the Kingston Police Department then taken to the regional lockup at the Plymouth County jail.
It shows this is a huge problem, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said Saturday night.
Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald said the effort was an important step in protecting children. I'm pleased with how this has turned out, he said Saturday night.
The operation dubbed Operation Trenchcoat involved more than 50 law enforcement agents, including the state police, Plymouth County Sheriff's department, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Marshfield, Kingston, Plymouth and Wareham police and other local authorities throughout the region.
This was a huge operation, Cruz said. I am disturbed by the number arrested but I'm not surprised. It just goes to show how widely spread this is.
The sting was overseen by state police in the district attorney's office with key work done online by investigators in the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department's High Tech Evidence Analysis Team, or HEAT, as well as by state police and federal customs agents.
McDonald said cooperation between agencies is key in online investigations.
This works best when we all work together, McDonald said. Local, state, county and federal agents all coming together is what is important.
Cruz said the operation also involved troopers assigned to his office, as well as state police assigned to the computer forensic unit and uniformed troopers throughout the state.
The arrests are the latest in Plymouth County involving state Trooper Peter Cooke, assigned to Cruz' office, and members of the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department High-Tech Evidence Analysis Team, or HEAT.
The arrests bring to 28 the number of accused online predators arrested by HEAT and state police since October.
Gerald Puldosky, chief-of-staff at the sheriff's department, said some of the comments made by the online predators are shocking. It is like a pornographic book, Puldosky, a former prosecutor with 30 years experience, said. What they're saying online to what they believe is a 13 year old girl is unbelievable.
The Pilot House Restaurant, left, is next to where the New York Central No. 16 is grounded.
"One more slim ball put out of commission."
If the past history of Massachussetts' exportation of one sex offender is any
indication...
Montana might be in Dodgson's future!
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a425eaf0912.htm
Please note that Dodgson does still has the presumption of innocence.
And I am NOT implying there's any odd food consumption in his case!
I questioned it because I didnt realize it was Dodgsons!
Re-post it, but make sure you explain it is Dodgsons site, it looked like an advertisement or something. :)
I started to read the URL link. It is sickning stuff. I don't wish to continue in the details.
http://www.plycom.com/
All students work hands on during each class (;wink;)
Do you recognize these hands?
ummm, hands??
I really couldn't find any foot pictures, so that will have to do. How's the oxygen level?
Thanks for the warning. But I seldom stare at the moron box. The only two shows I would suffer through would be NCIS and The Unit. And of course watch and rant and rave while eating dinner as the alphebet channels provide their daily dose of misinformation, disinformation, lies, communist inspired techniques to a mostly unknowing audiance. But thanks for the warning. I don't think I shall have a problem in this case.
Thanks for the ping, post & pics.
He probably didn't have this problem some thirty years ago when he applied for an appointment to the USMA. I don't know how they would screen for it anyway.
Ping to an "I couldn't quite figure out why I'd been pinged" PING...because I went straight to the story. Then, when I did figure it out, I was like "Oh, you have GOT to be kidding.
And you weren't.
Recommend!
Check it out.
Plymouth Computer Solutions, www.plycom.com
Dodgson's computer business did partnerships with William Jefferson's Netlink business:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635819/posts
FBI raids House of Representatives office
Excerpt:
>>>According to court records filed in the plea deal, Jefferson helped secure a deal with a Nigerian company called Netlink Digital Television and in return demanded payments to a company maintained in the name of his wife and children.<<<
And Autodesk:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623052/posts
Former Fort Monmouth (NJ) Workers Charged With Providing No-Show Jobs
Excerpt:
>>>>Accused in an indictment made public today are 55-year-old Michael Rzeplinski, a former programs director for the General Services Administration and former Army supervisory engineer; 61-year-old Connie Davidson, a former G-S-A employee who lives with Rzeplinski in Red Bank, and her 33-year-old Kirsten Davidson of Red Bank.<<<<
Who is Kirsten Davidson:
Kirsten.davidson@autodesk.com. SOURCE Autodesk, Inc.
http://www.southofboston.com/articles/2006/07/15/2headlines/news/news/news01.txt
Plymouth selectman nabbed in major sex sting
If he weren't a democrat, we would have heard about it.
Freeper's Rule!!
Bump, Alamo Girl!
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
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