The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office announced the results of two consecutive multiagency operations targeting sexual predators and offenders.
Operation Safe Passage and Operation Unified Watch each lasted about four days, and they both shared the same focus: protecting children from dangerous predators online and out in the community.
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“I recommend this if you think we’re too stringent in St. Johns County, you think we’re too strict, we check you too much, then I recommend that you move to another county,” said Sheriff Robert Hardwick with the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.
The two operations involved state, local, and federal agencies working together. The first of the two law enforcement efforts was Operation Safe Passage, which targeted subjects who used the internet to prey on children. This took place from September 17th – 20th and led to 17 arrests…