HOUSTON – Six men were arrested and charged after a sex sting operation last week in Harris County, the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office announced Tuesday.
Undercover law enforcement officers posed as minors online to identify, locate and apprehend adults willing to travel to meet children for sex.
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Authorities said the suspects listed below conversed online with those they believed to be juvenile males and females and traveled from their home areas to the undisclosed location in northwest Harris County to engage in sexual acts with these “children.” When the suspects arrived at a location, law enforcement were instead there and arrested them, authorities said.
Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Houston Police Department, Humble Police Department, Missouri City Police Department, Texas DPS, Fort Bend County District Attorney and Sheriff’s Office, League City Police Department, Katy ISD Police Department, Conroe Police Department, Cypress Fairbanks ISD Police Department and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office all participated in the sting, authorities said.
Here’s a list of the people authorities said were arrested during the operation.
Michael Polarski
10/25/1995
Online Solicitation of a Minor
$60,000.00
174th District Court
Out On Bond
Ernesto Cerdena
Online Solicitation of a Minor, Prostitution
$10,000.00 on Online Solicit case, no bond on Prostitution
208th District Court
Out On Bond
David Strickler
Online Solicitation of a minor
$10,000.00
230th District Court
Out On Bond
Irvin Garcia
Online Solicitation of a Minor x 2. This male spoke with two of the operations UC profiles and admitted to traveling to meet one or possibly both juvenile females for sex, authorities said.
$20,000.00
248th District Court
Out On Bond
Hanok Morampudi
Online solicitation of a minor
$10,000.00
230th District Court
Out On Bond
Aarif Chaudhary
Online Solicitation of a Minor
$10,000.00
183rd District Court
Out On Bond