Over in Luzerne County there's a convicted felon who poses as a young girl online in order to catch creepy men on dating apps. Once he collects enough evidence he then arranges meetings and shows up alone with the camera rolling. He is now brazen and well known enough that he'll sometimes get into the cars with the pedos to berate them. There have been quite a few criminal charges based on the evidence he submits, and also a lot of funny YT videos and genuinely frightening chat logs.
Looks to me like the subject of "Luzerne County Predator Catcher #448" is the longtime Wilkes University cross country coach. His page was recently scrubbed from the website but is still available as a cached version and there is a news article identifying him as the coach from just one week ago. As you might expect, no statement from Wilkes yet. On Facebook folks are saying that the coach did get fired from his day job which was at a school for special needs children.
The chat logs are linked in the video. The messages written by the predator catcher (i.e. "You probably got Lil ****") are so obviously not written by a 15 year old girl which makes you wonder how many more people would get exposed if there was more tact involved.
Note this guy apparently has a twin brother who is also a coach in the area and had nothing to do with this.
Wilkes U (Pa.) Head Coach Apparently Caught in Catch-a-Predator Sting
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Back when I was a 5:05 miler he tried to recruit me a lot, he was like the only coach to try, maybe it was just because I was young...
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Was just searching for an update on this story and found this post. I was his assistant coach for a season after graduation from a nearby college. It was a very unenjoyable position and the team didn’t like or respect him. He was super awkward and often rude, and barely communicated with his runners which put me in many tough situations as the go-between for pissed off athletes and an immature coach. However, I never had any indication he was actually dangerous. Really gross.
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