[DAnconia55]

How would local police perform such a sting? Why would it be a local crime?

"You're kidding?!?!"

sorry, that didn't come out right. I meant to say - Why would it be a local prosecution, as opposed to a state one.

I didn't know that local resources were wasted in such a manner by local police.

At the moment, I'm leaning toward guilty, but framed - (the government knew of his inclinations, and chose to exploit it) but that's purely guessing on my part.

[lds23]

There was a thread a few days back that had some more info on the LEOs involved.

[BullDog108]

I didn't know that local resources were wasted in such a manner by local police.

Taking pedophiles off the street is not a waste of local resources IMO.

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[codercpc]

Why would it be a local prosecution, as opposed to a state one.

I don't disagree with the points you have made on this thread, but I do want to point out that I watched an interview with the lead FBI agent in charge of the recent sting out of Texas that lead to the arrest of Pete Townsend. He stated that after the FBI agents "scrubbed" the records and found the credit card numbers and names of the participants, they fowarded almost all of them to the LOCAL authorities to do the actual arrests.

The locals then decided how to proceed, they did not have to report back to the FBI.

I am totally speculating here, but this could be the same sort of case. A large sting was undertaken and then passed on to Scotts local law enforcement agency and they took it from there. As for the sealing of the prosecution, I don't know what the reason for that was.