Investigators release details of Internet sex sting

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla.,None — A youth pastor, a fire lieutenant, a doctor, and theme park employees are just a few of the people arrested in an online child sex sting in Orange County.

Fifty people were arrested as part of Operation Spider Web. Channel 9 was the first to report on the sting operation on Monday. Now, the Orange County Sheriff's Office has released more information about the bust.

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Here's how the sting worked: 50 detectives took part in online chat rooms, some posing as parents offering sex with their children, others posing as children themselves. They set up in a west Orange County home where the people came to meet what they thought where children ranging in ages 8 to 15.  Instead, officers surprised them and took the people down.  One of those arrested, was found with a knife in his pocket, investigators said.

Thirty-three of those arrested came from other counties and other states to have sex with children, officers said.

"In this case, a lot of it will involve forensic information.  I know the sheriff's office executed a lot of search warrants on these individuals homes to get their personal computers," said Assistant State Attorney Deborah Barra.

Among those arrested was Michael Lee, a 32-year-old youth pastor at Eastland Baptist Church on Lake Underhill Road.

The majority of those arrested in the sting operation have bonded out of jail.

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