Luis Rios, assigned to the Central Jail, is on administrative duty after accusations that he solicited underage decoys online for sex
A sergeant with the Sheriff’s Department is under investigation after video of a citizen-led sting was posted online Friday night alleging he was soliciting sex from someone posing as an underage boy.
Luis Rios, a 25-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Department, has been a sergeant for about a year and had been assigned to the San Diego Central Jail, sheriff’s officials said in a statement Saturday. Officials said they “took immediate action” after the allegations surfaced by placing him on administrative assignment Friday night, officials said.
Officials said the department has opened an internal investigation into the allegations but did not say if a criminal investigation was also under way.
“We take these allegations very seriously and will do a thorough investigation into the matter,” the statement read.
Rios could not be immediately reached for comment Saturday.
The sting was conducted by members of a citizen group called People v. Preds, who pose as minors online and engage in sexually explicit chats with adults, then expose them publicly when they are suspected of trying to meet up for sex. They and similar groups operating in San Diego County aim to pick up where Dateline NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” show left off more than a decade ago.
People v. Preds posted a video of a confrontation on Instagram Friday. It shows a group member with a camera approaching a man, alleged to be Rios, in a silver SUV in a parking lot, in what was purportedly intended to be a meet-up with an underage boy.
The man denies his name is Luis and says he is waiting for a McDonald’s order. When the cameraman shows him a photo and asks if that is him, the driver acknowledges it is him and asks where the cameraman got it.
The cameraman then asks the driver about online conversations with teenage decoys, and the driver rolls up his window and drives..
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