Group catches Utah online predator in the act; officials concerned about methods

An online group that attempts to catch pedophiles in the act recently spent 24 hours in Utah, and claims to have confronted four suspected predators.

According to Predator Poachers out of Houston, one of those ensnared in their sting locally was on parole and confronted at his Salt Lake City halfway house. That man is now back in prison, but Utah Department of Corrections officials say the group’s confrontation process is very concerning and that they are nothing more than vigilantes.

The vigilante label is a characterization Predator Poachers founder and leader Alex Rosen strongly denies…

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