Water Park Dad: Loaded Glock, Condoms, and a 14-Year-Old

People ask all the time, and obviously I've been doing a lot of media interviews because of the primetime movie, but people then, after addressing all that, continue to wonder, and I wonder, because I don't have the answer.

I mean, I have some ideas about it.

I have some theories.

I don't think every one of the predators I've caught comes from the same category.

They're different guys, different motives, different mindsets, different walks of life, economic levels of success, et cetera, et cetera.

But what makes somebody who's, you know, seemingly on the surface pretty happy, not rich, but has a good job, been in a little bit of trouble, but not a lot, somebody who's married, somebody who has children, somebody who has just been on vacation at a massive, very popular water park with his wife, his kids, his parents, the whole family.

What makes this guy, towards the end of this vacation, living this very middle to upper middle class life, what makes him suddenly get online chat up a 14 year old girl.

And the moment he gets back from this idyllic family vacation, he gets in his car or a car with his cousin.

Cousin happens to have a bunch of guns in the trunk, including an assault rifle.

And the guy carries a pistol apparently everywhere he goes legally in Florida.

and drive over to meet this 14-year-old girl for sex.

Now, he's going to tell me he's never done it before, never been in trouble before, first time.

I don't believe that.

I mean, how would you even know how to do this and get it hooked up and find the person? Well, what makes him do that? Well, that's the exact scenario we saw in May of 2026.

In Martin County, Florida, when Sheriff John Budenseek and his team, along with my team, conducted a sting there in Martin County.

Now, Martin County is on the east coast of Florida, just a ways up from Palm Beach.

Jupiter is right there.

It's a nice area.

There's some economically challenged parts of it, but it's a nice area of Florida, Martin County.

But the sheriff is on the case there, like so many other sheriffs with whom we work.

And here we are.

Undercover in a house doing a sting.

Enrolling Junior Gene.

26-year-old man who is a chef at a seafood restaurant in Vero Beach, Florida.

He's got the night on.

People ask all the time, and obviously I've been doing a lot of media interviews because of the primetime movie, but people then, after addressing all that, continue to wonder, and I wonder, because I don't have the answer.

I mean, I have some ideas about it.

I have some theories.

I don't think every one of the predators I've caught comes from the same category.

They're different guys, different motives, different mindsets, different walks of life, economic levels of success, et cetera, et cetera.

But what makes somebody who's, you know, seemingly on the surface pretty happy, not rich, but has a good job, been in a little bit of trouble, but not a lot, somebody who's married, somebody who has children, somebody who has just been on vacation at a massive, very popular water park with his wife, his kids, his parents, the whole family.

What makes this guy, towards the end of this vacation, living this very middle to upper middle class life, what makes him suddenly get online chat up a 14 year old girl.

And the moment he gets back from this idyllic family vacation, he gets in his car or a car with his cousin.

Cousin happens to have a bunch of guns in the trunk, including an assault rifle.

And the guy carries a pistol apparently everywhere he goes legally in Florida.

and drive over to meet this 14-year-old girl for sex.

Now, he's going to tell me he's never done it before, never been in trouble before, first time.

I don't believe that.

I mean, how would you even know how to do this and get it hooked up and find the person? Well, what makes him do that? Well, that's the exact scenario we saw in May of 2026.

In Martin County, Florida, when Sheriff John Budenseek and his team, along with my team, conducted a sting there in Martin County.

Now, Martin County is on the east coast of Florida, just a ways up from Palm Beach.

Jupiter is right there.

It's a nice area.

There's some economically challenged parts of it, but it's a nice area of Florida, Martin County.

But the sheriff is on the case there, like so many other sheriffs with whom we work.

And here we are.

Undercover in a house doing a sting.

Enrolling Junior Gene.

26-year-old man who is a chef at a seafood restaurant in Vero Beach, Florida.

He's got the night on.