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Here's something like the Super Adventure Club, only it's a sting operation run by the FBI, and according to this news article, someone got busted for trying to run an international tour for "clients" who wanted to have sex with children.

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Willoughby Mariano and Pedro Ruz Gutierrez | Sentinel Staff Writers
Posted May 12, 2006

A Cocoa Beach man was jailed without bail Thursday after federal authorities said he tried to run an international tour for "clients" who wanted to have sex with children.

Federal agents arrested Gary B. Evans, 58, and said he tried to do business with Wicked Adventures Travel. The site advertised "pleasure tours" with companions 12 and younger. But the site was run by undercover FBI agents, not tour operators. Federal agents and Brevard County deputy sheriffs arrested Evans on Wednesday evening.

"The Department of Justice has made it a priority to prosecute crimes like these," Assistant U.S. Attorney Vincent Citro said in an interview after Evans' initial appearance in Orlando federal court. "Crimes involving sex with children are serious and deplorable offenses."

Clarence Counts, Evans' attorney and an assistant federal public defender, would not comment after the hearing.

The sting began in August, when Evans first sent an e-mail to Wicked Adventures and introduced himself as a boat captain, an affidavit states.

Evans proposed a partnership: He would arrange sex tours to Honduras and Costa Rica, complete with a boat, according to an affidavit for Evans' arrest.

The undercover FBI agents, acting as the tour operators, agreed. Two undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arranged a $1,000, three-day tour starting May 5 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

During the tour, three Honduran adults introduced undercover agents posing as clients to seven girls, two of whom they said were 12 years old, the affidavit states.

Two of the girls were put in the agents' hotel room. The agents left soon after paying an additional $260 to the Hondurans, saying they had a business emergency and had to return to the United States.

At Thursday's hearing, Magistrate James Glazebrook ordered Evans held without bail until a detention hearing Monday, after Citro called him a "danger to the community."

The prosecutor said Evans had told federal agents that "12 years old is a proper age for consent."

Because Evans used his Brevard County home to facilitate the travel to Honduras for sex with minors, it also is subject to forfeiture, Citro told Glazebrook.

Evans had two previous arrests, but neither was prosecuted, according to Florida Department of Law Enforcement records.

Evans was booked into the Seminole County Jail on Thursday on charges of arranging for the travel of a person to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

He faces up to 30 years in prison. Citro said Honduran authorities are cooperating in the investigation, but he does not know of any arrests in that country.

Looks like that goof got his plan broken in two: bad and worse.

Shake the crime stick!