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The pet center is located at 130 N. Stratton Rd., off US 1 between County Road 210 and International The Recorder is published every Thursday Golf Parkway. Business hours are Tuesday through Friday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The at 1102 A1A N., Unit 108 Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082 center is closed to the public on Sunday. On Monday, the office is open by appointment only to claim a lost pet. For more information, please call the St. Johns County Pet Center at (904) 209-6190. PV2-LV41264 Ponte Vedra Recorder · August 17, 2017 COMMUNITY NEWS 3 Ponte Vedra woman CUSTOM BUILDING & REMODELING arrested, charged SINCE 1962 with aggravated RESIDENTIAL / COMMERCIAL assault with deadly weapon without TOM TROUT, inc. 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Shoar stressed that while SJSO managed e-commerce sites, and invariably, some of “One of the issues that we have is that the to capture 17 suspects, the number of other In a press conference Aug. 11, St. Johns these people are looking to travel here – to bad people, the people who come down and offenders out there committing these crimes County Sheriff David Shoar announced that our county – thinking that they are going to try to do these things to 10-year-old girls is unknowable. 17 men, ranging in age from 19 to 60 years have some kind of sexual relationship with an and boys, they’re not as dumb as you might “For every arrest that we may make old, have been arrested for soliciting sex from underage female or an underage male.” think,” Shoar said. “Things are evolving involving this particular type of crime, I minors as a result of a county-wide under- Shoar explained that suspects are often with technology—I call it the ‘dark side of can’t even venture to guess how people get cover operation entitled “Operation Cruel aware that they could be speaking with technology.’ It’s evolving in the child porn in- through and actually are able to victimize our Summer.” undercover law enforcement when they dustry…and we’ve got to stay one step ahead children,” he said. The operation, which was the fourth of its are seeking out children online, but that the of them because if we don’t, our children are Nonetheless, Shoar expressed his gratitude kind led by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s compulsion that drives them is just too great going to be victimized.” for the collaboration that took place through- Office (SJSO) over the past six years, was for them to exercise more caution. Though most of the 17 apprehended men out the county in order to make Operation a five-day operation in which undercover “People that engage in this behavior, were Florida residents, some traveled from Cruel Summer possible, stating, “We are all detectives posed as children online to locate there’s no 12-step program and there’s no out of state to solicit sex from children. in this fight together…and there’s nothing and identify suspects wishing to sexually therapy for them,” he said. “We’ve learned Of those arrested, eight were from Duval worse than seeing children victimized by exploit minors. that the hard way over many, many years.” County, five were from St. Johns County, one anybody—especially these types of people “It took place about two weeks ago, here Shoar advised that, even with some each were from Clay and Flagler Counties, who are looking to sexually manipulate and in our county,” Shoar said.