A month-long investigation snared 244 alleged online child-sex predators, the FBI and other agencies announced at a June 10 news conference in Dallas.
“We’re taking them off the street and not stopping,” FBI Director Kash Patel wrote in a social media post about the Texas arrests.
The FBI Dallas office’s special agent in charge, R. Joseph Rothrock, told reporters that a common goal united more than 70 federal, state, and local agencies: “to rescue children from abuse and exploitation.”
This marks the second month in a row that the FBI has announced large-scale arrests of alleged online predators. Such cases are being considered high priority for President Donald Trump’s Justice Department, Patel said last month, as he announced that 205 suspects were arrested in a nationwide sweep called “Operation Restore Justice.”…