The Longmont Police Department arrested 29-year-old William McRoberts on June 19 on suspicion of possession of child sexual abuse materials and other related charges, around two weeks after the department had a public kerfuffle related to the matter with the Texas-based social media group Predator Poachers.
Predator Poachers — which has amassed around 250,000 followers on Facebook and over 360,000 on YouTube since its start in 2019 — was performing a “sting” on a man (allegedly McRoberts) at Lefthand Creek Park on June 9. The group livestreamed the “predator catch” and later posted it to social media, showing founder Alex Rosen confronting the man and claiming he had been attempting to solicit sex from a decoy father and daughter.
Rosen said McRoberts would not be arrested because Boulder County was part of “the liberal kingdom of Colorado.”…