COPPERAS COVE, Texas — A three-day sting operation to find online predators led to six arrests in Copperas Cove last week, according to the office of Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Paxton's Child Exploitation Unit and the Copperas Cove Police Department teamed up for the operation.
Five of the arrests were for online solicitation of a minor.
Thirty-one-year-old Josef James Dilly of Copperas Cove and 45-year-old Victor Manuel Vascot of Killeen were both arrested Nov. 20.
Twenty-eight-year-old Isaac Figueroa Jr. of Round Rock, 31-year-old Justin Earl Kepler of Lampasas and 37-year-old Jesse Franklin Quidachay were arrested Nov. 21.
Demerick Deon Hearne, 47, of Copperas Cove was also arrest Nov. 20 on one count of prostitution.
6 men arrested during Copperas Cove online predator sting
“I thank the hard-working investigators with my office’s Child Exploitation Unit and Human Trafficking Unit and the brave police officers of Copperas Cove Police Department for stopping these child-predators from potentially harming more innocent children,” Paxton said in a press release.
All of the men were taken to the Coryell County Jail.
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