An ex-Disney World Mickey Mouse impersonator and 12 coworkers were among nearly 300 accused creeps busted in a Florida sex sting that also netted four Universal employees, a football coach and a Navy sailor.
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Colin Klaco, 24 — who a local sheriff noted had his Mickey Mouse character’s “high spooky voice too, by the way” — was into diapers and brought two backpacks full that he planned to wear and put on the young boy he believed he was talking to online, a person who was actually an undercover agent, authorities said Friday.
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One of the other busted fiends, Adam Snyder, was working at Roundup Rodeo restaurant in Disney’s Toy Story Land — and did not even change out of his uniform when he was caught trying to have sex with a little boy, police said.
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But the “worst of the worst” was Rashiod Crayton, a 31-year-old local youth football coach whose messages to a person he believed to be a 14-year-old girl were “so graphic” that Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said he could not share the details.
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“The focus here is to go out into the underworld and look for those who want to prey upon our folks,” Judd said of the historic weeklong operation, dubbed “Polk Around and Find Out II.”
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Undercover agents busted 281 people in all — including child predators and human traffickers — and rescued 11 people who were being trafficked, Judd announced at a press conference.
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A majority of the arrests involved prostitution.
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Thirty-two of those arrested were in the country illegally from nine different countries — including Italy, India, Peru, Ecuador and Haiti — 22 of which were illegally collecting public assistance totaling more than $100,000 a year altogether, according to the sheriff’s
Judd described Klaco as the “nastiest person we’ve ever arrested.
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As for Snyder, the sheriff played footage for reporters showing an ice-cream truck go by as he was being arrested, with the official calling it “apropos.”
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Judd added that Crayton told the person he thought was a 14-year-old girl, “among other things, well, ‘I can pick you up at school, and then we can have sex in the car.’
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‘You see, we’ve got to be careful because just these texts will put me in jail.’
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And then when he arrived he brought, among other things, a battery-charged sex toy,” Judd said.
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Authorities also nabbed US Navy machinist Dang Thai, who lied about being 17 when he is actually 24, Judd said.
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After he was arrested for trying to have sex with a minor, he protested that he had “top secret clearance.”
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Of the total arrests, 117 were caught by undercover agents and charged with soliciting prostitution, including an Orange County deputy.
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Another 122 were arrested for committing prostitution.
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They were screened, and law enforcement determined that 11 of them were victims of human trafficking, the sheriff’s office said.
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They were all offered services.
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The bust was the largest sting operation in Polk County’s history, Judd said.
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He confirmed that all those who were working at Disney at the times of their arrest had been fired.
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Nine of the charged were on probation, while 31 had prior prostitution charges.
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“At least they were as of the time that they were arrested.
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I don’t know what their significant other thinks about them today,” Judd quipped.
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