Once again, Sheriff Grady Judd is having to make another announcement about rounding up more than 100 people in a human trafficking operation, and once again, another Disney employee is among the fish caught in the net, included in the 160 arrested. Even teachers were busted.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies arrested 160 people in a seven-day operation focused human trafficking in its area.
Deputies said the arrests from “Fall Haul 2” included school teachers, a state corrections officer, and a Disney employee. Twenty-six of those charged were said to be married men, and 15 of the arrests involved people from outside of Florida.
One of these out-of-state arrests included a deputy police chief from Georgia, Jason DiPrima, who allegedly tried to hire an undercover detective pretending to be a prostitute with $180 and a pack of White Claw. During a press conference, Sheriff Grady Judd said DiPrima has since resigned from his position and condemned him for embarrassing the Cartersville Police Department and his family.
“He did a mean, nasty thing to his family,” Judd said.
DiPrima wasn’t the only government employee to be arrested. A corrections officer with Lake Correctional Institution, 24-year-old Keith Nieves of Orlando ...
