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HERRIMAN, Utah (ABC4) — The Herriman City Police Department announced that they arrested a man for alleged sexual enticement of a minor after receiving information from a citizen group. The group had confronted the suspect in a vigilante investigation.
52-year-old Jeramie Halverson was arrested for allegedly enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity and committing forcible sexual abuse after he was messaging with a juvenile female. The juvenile was actually a private citizen acting as a juvenile.
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The citizen is reportedly part of a private group that stages “chat operations” where an adult decoy acts as a juvenile female on social media apps. The group is not connected to law enforcement, and the decoy had multiple conversations with Halverson through multiple social media apps…