Who Here Has Served With a Service Member That was Busted by Chris Hansen?

2022-08-13T19:50:29-04:00

There was a number of military men who got busted on To Catch a Predator. How was following week's Friday COB briefing?

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 14 at 2022 2:16 AM

2022-08-14T02:16:38-04:00

I don't know if the guy I worked with was caught by Chris Hanson, but when I was at 1st Group in Okinawa, we had no less than three people go down.

One was an older, SFC, super smart commo guy. Apparently he was running a server on the dark net. People showed up and took him away in handcuffs and he was never heard from again.

The second, a very senior SF Team Sergeant with about 25 years in, was court martialed, reduced to E1 and received a bad conduct discharge in lieu of prison time. He was texting another service members 12 year old daughter inappropriately.

The third one was a brand new MI guy who was just weird to begin with. The Air Force Investigators set up a sting house on the base. Apparently there are enough predators running around Kadena that he wasn't the only one caught.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 14 at 2022 6:41 AM

2022-08-14T06:41:12-04:00

Never had a Chris Hansen moment....but sure had a guy go to prison for doing exactly that....

Response by SSgt Christophe Murphy made Aug 15 at 2022 9:25 AM

2022-08-15T09:25:09-04:00

Back in 2004 when we returned from Deployment we had a SSgt get arrested by NCIS as soon as we got off the buses at the Battalion area. He stepped off the bus, they flashed a badge and a Marine from the armory collected his weapon and serialized gear before they carted him off. Most people didn't even notice or see it happen. Evidently he molested his kids and they told their mom during the deployment. The entire investigation was completed while we were in country and the last thing they needed to do was collect him when our Bn returned. It was pretty wild.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 15 at 2022 12:32 PM

2022-08-15T12:32:39-04:00

I mean - they mostly just get caught on their own. There are a LOT of chimos in the Army sadly. I went through Army Times when they used to publish UCMJ results like in 2015, 2016 and counted up only sex crimes to use in a SHARP brief. The majority of those convicted, it was for sex crimes against children. Sexual abuse, sexual assault or possessing child rape images. Mostly junior enlisted but some senior enlisted and officers were in there.

A safety brief when someone gets caught sexually abusing anyone, kids or adults, is going to be the same it always is. There's probably going to be a sudden mandatory SHARP briefing too.

This is the most random question I think I've seen on here...where did you see "there was a number of military men busted on Chris Hansen's To Catch a Predator?" I can't find any sort of article about it. Was it before it was cancelled in 2008 or when it restarted in 2016?

Response by CSM Charles Hayden made Aug 15 at 2022 2:35 PM

2022-08-15T14:35:23-04:00

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/catch-predator-host-chris-hansen-arrested-over-13-000-bounced-n959471

I had never heard of Hansen before, the internet certainly has!

'To Catch a Predator' host Chris Hansen arrested over bounced checks

Police issued a warrant for Hansen's arrest after he refused to speak with them.