NASHVILLE, N.C. (WBTV) – Officers posing as underage children online arrested 16 men in North Carolina during a four-day undercover operation.
The operation, titled “Operation Cursed Cupid,” happened in February in Nashville, North Carolina. It was based in Nash County but included agencies across the state and country, like the Huntersville Police Department and U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division. More than 150 officers from 13 organizations worked together.
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The suspects ranged in age from 19 to 87 with charges including solicitation of child by computer, sexual battery familial or custodial/lewd and lascivious molestation, and carrying concealed weapon, among several others.
Listed below are the men arrested, as well as their charges.
Any suspected exploitation of children online should be reported to the police, or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children CyberTipline at www.cybertipline.org.
Aaron Reshon Murphy, 34
- Solicitation of child by computer
- Dissemination of obscenity to minor
- Solicitation of prostitution to minor
Adam Abraham Scanlan, 32
Cody Blasiman, 24
- First-degree sexual exploitation of minor, two counts
- Dissemination of obscenity to minor under 13, two counts
Daniel Mabe, 43
- Second-degree sexual exploitation of minor
Dawson Matthew Memmel, 21
- Solicitation of child by computer
- Dissemination of obscenity to minor
- Attempt first-degree sexual exploitation of minor
Dennis Paul Corbett, 87
- Solicitation of child by computer, two counts
Jairo Flores, 27
- Second-degree sexual exploitation of minor, 10 counts
James Onofrio, 61
- Second-degree sexual exploitation of minor
- Third-degree sexual exploitation of minor, 10 counts
- Carrying concealed gun
- Resisting public officer
Jeremy Prashaw
- Disclose private images of adult
- Second-degree sexual exploitation of minor, 10 counts
John Clay Harris, 65
- Dissemination of obscenity to minor
Michael Clark Williams, 76
- Solicitation of child by computer, two counts
- Attempt first-degree sexual exploitation of minor, two counts
Nezar Ghaleb Ghaleb, 29
- Solicitation of child by computer
- Solicitation by computer
- Indecent liberties with child
- Attempted statutory rape of a child under 15
- Third-degree sexual exploitation of minor, 13 counts
Nicholas Lee Bryson, 35
- Sexual activity by a parent/custodian – four counts
- Fugitive (Broward, FL) – Sexual battery familial or custodial/lewd and lascivious molestation
Raymond Hunter Robson, 64
- Solicitation of child by computer
- Dissemination of obscenity to minor
Salvador Galaviz, 41
- Second-degree sexual exploitation of minor, three counts
William Manning, 19
- Second-degree sexual exploitation of minor, four counts
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