Colombia hide your young girls....the Baptists are coming

Not much here in terms of information giving, except the part about this guy leading a trip to Bogota. This is the megachurch sitting on one of the best corners on Plano (Dallas suburb), schoo, football team, all that tax free property. And I was raised Baptist, so I think I take only a minimal risk of backlash here (fat chance):

Minister arrested in sex sting

By MATTHEW WATKINS
Eagle Staff Writer

A minister at a Plano megachurch was arrested in Bryan early Thursday after he drove more than three hours to have sex with a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl, police said.

The person with whom 52-year-old Joe Barron had been chatting online was a Bryan police officer conducting a sting operation.

He was one of two men arrested in a 48-hour period on charges of online solicitation of sex with a minor after investigators posed online as young girls. The crime is a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

The other arrest was made Tuesday when 34-year-old Bryan resident Christopher Scott Kazmierski tried to make the same connection as Barron, authorities said.

Five other men were in touch with officers pretending to be teens over the past week, but they never showed.

Barron serves as a minister at the 26,000-member Prestonwood Baptist Church. He is not the church's main pastor, but he has counseled married couples and was planning to lead a mission trip to Bogota, Colombia, in August, according to the church's Web site. The church has at least 20 ministers on its staff, according to the site.

Messages left at the church elicited no response Thursday evening.

Police said they began chatting with Barron online about two weeks before he made the drive to Bryan. During that time, he told "the girl" he wanted to have sex with her and requested that she skip school Thursday and meet with him.

Undercover officers arranged the meeting at a predetermined location in Bryan on Thursday morning.

"He said that he had moved around his work schedule so he could come to town," said Sgt. Shane Bush, who leads a vice unit called the Directed Deployment Team that runs the stings.

Police inconspicuously surrounded the lot with surveillance vans and unmarked trucks, then waited nearly two hours for him to arrive. In the meantime, the man was chatting online with the undercover officer on his phone while he drove.

"It's like hurry up and wait when you are investigating these things," said Sgt. Sharean Gideon as she waited for more than an hour in a van across the street from the meeting point.

Barron arrived about 10:30 a.m. in a different car than the one he had described during his chat, and he went to a lot adjacent to the arranged meeting point.

After brief confusion because he parked in a different spot than he had said he would, officers swept in to make the arrest.

An officer approached the man's car with his pistol pointed while Barron fiddled with something in the center console. Barron, dressed in a blue striped golf shirt and blue jeans, quickly lifted his hands in the air and surrendered to police without incident. Barron was handcuffed and escorted to a patrol car as his eyes welled up with tears.

Officers searched his car and found a computer camera that they later said he was going to give the girl as a gift. They also found 10 condoms folded inside a golf ball box in the back, officers said.

He's expected to go before a judge for a bail hearing Friday.

The investigation involving the Bryan resident earlier in the week went more quickly.

Bush said Kazmierski contacted an officer who was online using a screen name that suggested he was a young girl. Within a half-hour, authorities said, Kazmierski arranged to meet the girl at a specific location. Officers said they scrambled to get in place before Kazmierski arrived.

When he did, police arrested him and found condoms in his car, with a receipt saying he had bought them 10 minutes earlier, according to court documents.

"Please, God, let me go home," he said as police pushed him into a squad car, according to officers and court documents. "Please have mercy."

He remained jailed late Thursday in lieu of $9,000 bail.

By tlextoo on May 16, 2008, 11:32 in Friendly Talkzone.

nine inch nails says on May 16, 2008, 14:05:

They can be absolute hypocrits can't they?

I call them the American Jesus worshippers because unlike most of the rest of the wordly Christians.

"We all live for the American Jesus" - Bad Religion

get down, get down. are you afraid of the boogie monster?

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nine inch nails says on May 16, 2008, 14:06:

Also if you watch "To Catch a Predator" they catch all types of men trying to sex underage girls. Good show.

get down, get down. are you afraid of the boogie monster?

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goin_south says on May 17, 2008, 00:48:

God, I frankly can't remember if I've ever made it with a vrigin, Rubito.
So, I guess I haven't.
I guess I need to hang out more with morphus.

'what does it mean, when one of you (colombians) tell another: YOU WERE NOT/ARE NOT. 'COLOMBIAN ENOUGH'?? jejeje..a mixture, I think, of stupidity mixed with a false sense of arrogance.. How 'colombian' do you have to be? to be 'colombian enough

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andresmo169 says on May 17, 2008, 06:37:

To catch a predator comes on every Friday, check your local NBC station

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