Sentence examples for internet sting from inspiring English sources
The F.B.I.'s Internet sting program, called Innocent Images, brought 1,541 new cases last year, up from 113 in 1996.
The prosecutor, J. D. Roy Atchison, 53, was arrested on Sept. 16 leaving a plane in Detroit as part of an Internet sting operation led by the sheriff's department in Macomb County, Mich.
The underage girls were, in fact, investigators posing as 14- and 15-year-old girls in an Internet sting ordered by the district attorney, Jeanine F. Pirro.
Last year a popular fitness instructor who ran children's programs at a health club in neighboring Ossining was caught in an Internet sting by Mrs. Pirro's office.
At the time of his arrest as part of an Internet sting operation, the authorities said, Mr. Atchison, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., was carrying a Dora the Explorer doll, hoop earrings and petroleum jelly.
She also angrily denied the charge -- often made by her critics -- that the Internet sting cases are a way to deflect attention from a weak record on fighting organized crime and public corruption.
Today, women, men and transgender people who are targeted in anti-prostitution street sweeps and internet stings may be charged with breaking laws against solicitation, but not all sex workers face the consequences of the law equally.
Unfortunately, those personal touches make the swipe of a stranger's Internet blade sting all the more.
Shaila K. Dewan (NYT) WHITE PLAINS: PORNOGRAPHY ARRESTS -- Two men have been arrested as part of an Internet pornography sting operation, the authorities said.
The best parts of the book describe the unseemly efforts of trustees, hospital administrators, a private nurse who collected millions from her patient, and an accountant caught in an Internet sex sting to separate the heiress from her money.
Jayson Blair (NYT) NEW JERSEY PISCATAWAY: INTERNET SEX STING The pastor of a Pennsylvania church was arrested in a sting operation yesterday when he arrived at a New Jersey fast-food restaurant for what he thought would be a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old boy he had met on an Internet chat room.
