More than a dozen men have been arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say.
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
In all, police arrested 16 men during the investigation, which Hodges called "Operation Creep.”
One of the men, he said, is an employee for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who could face federal charges. Hodges said the ICE employee works as an auditor.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up.”
Another suspect is a staffer at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
WCCO has reached out to both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to confirm the men's roles and whether they're still employed.
Not all of the men have been charged.
Hodges added that he knew "ICE took custody of a few of them but we don't have a way to verify someone's status here at the Bloomington Police Department."
He added that sting operations have become more difficult in recent years because of advanced technology.
“We need to make sure that we pass some laws that make it so these companies can't continue to have these people on their platforms," Hodges said.
Police also shared a drone video of a suspect arriving at a hotel with a bag containing cocaine, methamphetamine and eight firearms.
Another suspect allegedly told the decoy he was showing up with a gun. Hodges shared a video of officers tackling that man to the floor.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and police departments from Eden Prairie, Richfield and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport assisted with the operation, Hodges said.
Several months ago, police conducted a similar sting that led to the arrest of ex-State Sen. Justin Eichorn, who is currently facing federal solicitation charges.
Fucking sickening. What a POS. Like all the Jan 6ers with crimes against children, rape, unlawful imprisonment, etc.
This guy said “I’m ICE boys,” and 100% expected that statement to be enough. Hell, in some parts of the US, that statement is enough. I’m completely mentally, and emotionally exhausted at this point. We’ll learn next that he was also a Sunday school teacher. A judge was recently caught with child pornography. I’m disgusted and just plain tired of ppl in the highest positions attacking the most vulnerable ppl in society.
There was also thisICE officer who was pulled over. He was driving under the influence, with his kids in the vehicle.
I will literally die if my Medicaid is taken away. But Trump gave tax breaks to the wealthy, who are his donors.
His donors are Zuck and Bezos for one, and of course you can’t forget Elon. Also the Waltons, arguably the richest family in America. I don’t really understand what the plan is…unless they’re banking on AI making humans unnecessary. If that’s not the plan, then they should try to keep the working class happy, just to keep their worker bees.
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Edit: I should've named and shamed the mf'er again. Alexander Steven Back.
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Agreed, and it's unsurprising that a lot of ICE agents have rapes, crimes against children, domestic violence, and assaults in their background before they were even hired ffs. Noem has said they slipped through the cracks. But the huge sign up bonus and the paperwork at sign-up being eliminated is going to lead to more of this. Like how many slipped through that are still out there?!
Edit: I didn't catch autocorrect changed Noem to November. fixed it.n
She is utterly useless and disgusting as well. 2 new private jets, but fuck the people actually working.
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This is just the one we found out about. No one is regulating what is happening to this vulnerable population in these horrifying places and no one is holding these monsters accountable for their crimes.
Children are always the most vulnerable members of society, and girls fall below even that. The world isn’t safe for women, and these monsters don’t even wait for them to reach womanhood anymore.
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This is what happens when you enable a group that runs on hate. Give it full power to harass, detain and arrest whoever they like, citizens or not, allow them to function without any checks, allow them to carry out these acts without any identification, with masks and weapons, and federally protect them for these crimes. They said terrorists are brown people, but these people are the actual terrorists; they dress like one and act like one.
This man had power, he could solicit anyone for sex with threats of detaining them or deportation, to do what he liked to women. The fact that he thought he could just say “I’m ICE” and get away with crime says as such. ICE should be defunded
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“I’m ice boys “ . So they let each other off for being grapists ? Isn’t that lovely
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It’s almost like ICE is scraping the bottom of the barrel…
Shocker... Who would have thought a group that believes they have no accountability, would get caught like this.
Gee, I thought these were the good guys I keep hearing so much about!
I'm so worried about the thousands of women and children missing in ICE custody.
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This sub is about reaction to women refusing.
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