Chris Hansen, host of TruBlu’s “Takedown” on FOX Nation, led a predator-busting operation last month that resulted in the arrest of five suspects in two days who were allegedly caught soliciting a minor for sex — three of whom were in the United States illegally.
“We worked with the Blount County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama, which is about 45 minutes outside of Birmingham. One of them was from Honduras and two were from Guatemala,” Hansen told Fox News Digital.
Hansen and the sheriff’s office posed as an undercover “aunt” offering to sell her niece for sex in online conversations with the suspects.
“Everyone used translation apps to get graphics [English] “Conversations detailing sexual acts they wanted to have with the child,” Hasnen told Fox News Digital, adding that the suspects “worked in construction and landscaping, often employed by unsuspecting homeowners and families.”
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When the suspects arrived at the police home in Blount County to meet with two young women posing as the aunt and niece, Hansen and other law enforcement officers identified themselves as police officers and questioned the suspects about their actions. Two of the suspects, Garson Chilol, 27, and Henry Lopez, 28, arrived at the home together.
Chris Hansen, host of TruBlu’s “Takedown” on FOX Nation, helped the Blount County Sheriff’s Office lead a predator sting operation in late July that resulted in the arrest of five suspects in two days who were allegedly caught soliciting a minor for sex — three of whom were in the U.S. illegally from Guatemala and Honduras. (Disassembly/TruBlu)
Hansen told Fox News anchor Jesse Watters on July 31 that Chilol and Lopez said they didn’t have much money to offer the aunt for sex with her teenage niece, but authorities discovered $1,500 in their wallets when they arrested the suspects.
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Hansen and the Blount County Sheriff’s Office were quickly notified of the suspects’ respective immigration statuses.
Hansen and the Blount County Sheriff’s Office were quickly notified of the suspects’ respective immigration statuses. (Disassembly/TruBlu)
Each of the suspects arrested in the solicitation of minors case has been charged with computer solicitation, human trafficking and traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sexual act, Hansen said.
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Sheriff Mark Moon told Hansen in a follow-up interview that the arrests signaled the need to “do a better job” of apprehending those who enter the United States illegally through the southern border.
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“We need to do a much more thorough job of controlling who we allow into our country because we are currently in a situation where the border opening process is affecting the entire country. I know that border towns and villages are overwhelmed, but this is affecting our entire country,” Moon said.
The sheriff added that “any law enforcement officer in this county, in any state” is faced with violent and nonviolent criminal activity related to illegal immigration.
