Dawson County, Georgia: Deputies are accused of using Grindr to lure gay men in sex sting

Georgia cops are cruising Grindr & charging men with “pandering” if they bring poppers to “hookup”

Georgia police were reportedly using Grindr and other “web-based platforms” to entice men into fake hookups and then arresting them for prostitution when the men arrived. Police claim the nine men offered to “trade” poppers or pot in exchange for sex. The cops are publishing the men’s mugshots and charges in the local newspaper, but Project Q Atlanta has reviewed the entire Grindr conversation from one of the men arrested and it shows that there is no truth to the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office’s claims. Related: 26 men arrested in a DC sex sting that has cops posing as horny ...

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Georgia deputies are accused of using Grindr to lure gay men in sex sting

• Dawson County Sheriff's Office in Georgia arrested nine men in online sex sting between March 2-4
• The men, between ages 23-50, were charged with pandering, possession of marijuana, possession of a controlled substance and criminal attempt
• Their names were released to a local news outlet, along with mugshots, and one of them was identified as a school teacher
• One of the man arrested in the sting showed the LGBTQ publication Project Q his Grindr exchange with undercover cop
• Officer wrote in arrest warrant that the man solicited him 'to perform an act of prostitution in exchange for marijuana,' but the Grindr chat does not show that
• Dawson County Sheriff Jeff Johnson defended his agency's handling of the sting operation and denied targeting gay men

Law enforcement officials in Georgia last month staged a sting operation on the gay dating app Grindr, arresting nine men on prostitution and drug-related charges. But one of the accused men has challenged the narrative laid out in the arrest warrant from the Dawson County Sheriff's Office, arguing that he did not offer to have sex with an undercover officer in exchange for marijuana. The suspect shared a screenshot of his exchange with Sgt W Dereck Johnson, who was pretending to be a Grindr user, with the Atlanta-based LGBTQ publication Project Q. According to the conversation, Johnson, who went by ...

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