A registered sex offender from Pleasant Hill was arrested in San Mateo on Sunday after an independent decoy operation allegedly lured him to a fake meetup with a minor, police said.
A group that the San Mateo Police Department describes as “an organization aimed at catching child predators” reached out to the department to report a man they had been communicating with for the “purpose of sexual activity.”
Plans were allegedly made between the underage decoy and the suspect and they agreed to meet in San Mateo. The organization provided police with the suspect’s information and officers identified him as Pleasant Hill resident James Carey, 43, who is a registered sex offender with a prior conviction. The suspect had sent a photograph of himself, which detectives say matched that of Carey.
On Sunday, investigators were allegedly able to trace Carey in his vehicle traveling from the East Bay and into San Mateo to the meeting place, where he arrived shortly after 1 p.m.
According to police, the decoy identified Carey and he was arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of arranging to meet with a minor for lewd purposes with a prior conviction, contacting a minor with the intent of committing a serious felony, and meeting with the intent to engage in lewd or lascivious acts with a minor.
Police said the organization involved wants to remain anonymous.
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If he’s found guilty, pull a Lorena Bobbitt on him and flush it down the toilet.
This reminds me of that show to catch a predator with chris hansen.
they would go running denying any contact with the child. Sickos.
C’ya…don’t drop the soap.
While vigilantism is trending I’m hoping the evidence they have collected will work in criminal court.
hope he drops the soap, cali is such a sewer these days, especially all of CCC, vote red this year, use your brain
How is this Sick Creep out of Prison? I think we all agree that he needs to go away and get some help!
Oh how the mighty have fallen… I loved his fire marshall bill character, and he was great in The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, and The Truman Show.