Two men arrested in computer sex cases
Article published on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 |
PINELLAS COUNTY - Detectives from the Pinellas County and Palm Beach County sheriff's offices have arrested a school administrator and another man for seducing children over the Internet.
The investigations began in Palm Beach County after both suspects engaged in inappropriate Internet communications with a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office detective assigned to the computer crimes bureau, sheriff's reports said.
Michael J. Montroy, 55, of St. Petersburg was arrested Wednesday, May 31, and Gary R. Smith, 54, of Palm Harbor was arrested Thursday, June 1.
The Palm Beach detective who began the investigation had been corresponding with Montroy via an Internet chat room. During these Internet conversations with Montroy, he believed the detective was a child under 16 years old.
Montroy was arrested at St. Petersburg Catholic High School, where he is employed as an administrator.
In an unrelated investigation, the detectives said that Smith also had been corresponding with a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office detective via an Internet chatroom. Smith was arrested at his home, reports said.
Detectives said both suspects were arrested for violating the state law that prohibits the use of a computer to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a child or another person believed by the person to be a child, to engage in a sexual act.
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Article published on Wednesday, June 7, 2006
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