- November 19, 2024
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A Bunnell police sergeant was arrested March 25 on child pornography charges after Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigators found him passing himself off as a teenage girl on Facebook in order to solicit nude pictures from teen boys, according to an FDLE arrest report.
Investigators said Michael Stavris, 30, used a local high school girl’s information to create the fake Facebook profile in 2013, according to the report.
He messaged the girl’s classmates through Facebook, asking the boys about what sex acts they’d committed in the past and asking them to send him pictures of their genitalia, according to an arrest report.
In some cases, Stavris, posing as the girl, promised to commit sex acts on the box later if they’d send the pictures first.
Some did, and between 30 and 40 kids “liked” the Fraudulent Facebook profile, according to an arrest report.
In November, during the investigation, Stavris said to a law enforcement officer that he’d created the Facebook profile, and he provided the login details, according to the report.
Investigators charged Stavris with two counts under the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Prevention Act and one count of criminal use of personal identification information.
He was taken to the county jail and held on $125,000 bond, but bonded out by Wednesday afternoon.
