Welcome to Arrest Stories. A sixty-four-year-old Miami tutor was arrested in Delray Beach after allegedly traveling two counties north to meet what he believed was a fourteen-year-old boy for sexual purposes at a Target store. Here's what may have happened.
According to police reports, Levi Cash thought he was communicating with a minor through text messages and the Grindr app, but was actually exchanging messages with a decoy operated by the Five Six One Predator Catchers group. The investigation began when this social media group tipped off authorities about Cash's alleged attempts to arrange an inappropriate meeting.
Police say Cash told the decoy he tutors children and sees about ten students daily. During their online conversations, he reportedly offered tutoring services to the supposed fourteen-year-old before making sexual advances. Cash allegedly sent explicit messages and made arrangements to meet at the Target store on Linton Boulevard.
The plan involved Cash purchasing specific items including condoms, lubricant, and Dr Pepper before meeting in the gaming section of the store. Cash reportedly discussed timing the encounter between his tutoring sessions with other students.
When confronted by the predator catcher group in Target's gaming aisle, Cash was asked what he was shopping for. He responded he was buying rice. The confrontation quickly escalated when investigators revealed their knowledge of the situation.
"What's going on, dude? What are we doing here?" Cash was asked during the encounter. When pressed about his true intentions, Cash allegedly admitted "you've got me dead to rights" and "he was sitting there and he started crying, and you know, he realized that he made a big mistake."
Cash faces charges related to using a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony. His bond was set at sixty thousand dollars with strict conditions including no contact with minors under eighteen, no internet access, and no smartphone with internet capabilities.
Following his arrest on Friday, Cash's employment with Catapult Learning tutoring company was terminated in September.
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