A child predator suspect dubbed “Ernie the Uber” was arrested during a traffic sting in Santa Ana on Wednesday.
Santa Ana police were alerted to the suspect, whose real name is Ernesto Orozco Villa, by a mother who recently discovered suspicious messages on her 16-year-old son’s cellphone.
In those messages, requests were made for explicit images and to arrange a sexual encounter, the Santa Ana Police Department stated in a Facebook post.
Police then developed a plan to lure Villa into meeting the victim. With a drone team monitoring from above, officers stopped his vehicle just before 1 a.m. near Bristol Street and McFadden Avenue…