TILDEN LAW – Orlando Criminal Attorney

The owner of a prominent Ocala real estate firm was arrested on charges of soliciting a prostitute on Friday.  Fred Roberts, Sr., 71, was one of seven men arrested on allegations of solicitation for prostitution.  The prostitution sting was conducted by the Multi-Agency Drug Enforcement Team, which is a task force comprised of officers from various local law enforcement agencies.

The undercover operation, one of three or four that the task force conducts each year, occurred in the area of 3600 W. State Road 40 between 3 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.  Sgt. Lee Whitston, who supervised the operation, said the team used female officers to pose as prostitutes. Men who approached them for sex were taken to a hotel room, where they were arrested.

According to an Ocala Police Department arrest report, Roberts approached a female undercover officer at about 4 p.m. and offered $50 in exchange for sex. He told officers he had never picked up prostitutes in Ocala but had done so in Tampa and had not been caught, the report stated.  Roberts was booked into the Marion County Jail at 6:30 p.m. and released on $500 bail.

If you have been arrested or charged with a sex, prostitution or other criminal offense in Orlando and are facing criminal prosecution in either Orange County, Seminole County, Florida, contact the attorneys at Tilden Law for an initial and confidential consultation, 407-599-1234.

Orange County detectives arrested a Marion County Methodist pastor on allegations of soliciting a minor for sex and transmitting harmful materials to a minor.  According to Orlando detectives, pastor Kenneth Kleckner, a pastor at the Ocala West United Methodist church, a high school teacher from Texas was the latest to be arrested in a sex sting operation earlier today. 

According to authorities, Kleckner, a 44-year-old pastor, who is married and has four children, exposed himself via a web camera and talked about meeting the girl, Graves said.  They communicated through Yahoo and other chat services, and those communications took place at the church and Kleckner’s home, the detective said.

Detective’s said that Kleckner was “immediately remorseful,” when he was arrested at the church Friday andadmitted to engaging in the chats,” Graves said.  Kleckner was booked into the Marion County Jail on $55,000 bond.

Kleckner’s arrest follows that of Selami Duman, a 28-year-old high school teacher from Ft. Worth, Texas, who was also nabbed in a sheriff’s sex sting.  Duman was arrested in June after he traveled to Orlando to meet with who he thought was a girl he met online for sex, investigators said.  Graves said Duman also exposed himself on a web camera.  Duman was arrested June 15 on charges of transmitting harmful material to a minor and soliciting a minor for sex. He was released from the Orange County Jail on June 18 on GPS monitoring.

 If you have been arrested or charged with a sex, prostitution or other criminal offense in Orlando and are facing criminal prosecution in either Orange County, Seminole County, Florida, contact the attorneys at Tilden Law for an initial and confidential consultation, 407-599-1234.

Prosecutors with the Orange County State Attorney’s Office have filed a Motion to Disqualify Orange County Judge Deborah Ansbro from a prostitution sting case.  Orange County prosecutors filed the motion after comments made by Judge Ansbro this week during a hearing which prompted a postponement of the hearing. 

According to the police report, Metropolitan Bureau of Investigations (MBI) agents conducted a undercover sting operation targeting massage parlor prostitution activity.  During one operation at Natural Therapies, it is alleged that an undercover agent touched the breast of a suspect during a prostitution sting.  This prompted the judge to say she already thinks that the officer behaved improperly.

An Orlando criminal defense attorney representing, masseuse Xueyan Zhou, claims his client did not give permission for the undercover agent to touch her breast. She is a victim of battery, he said, and should have her two second-degree misdemeanor prostitution charges dismissed.

MBI Director Phil Williams believes that the agent acted within the scope of his duties. Investigators contend Xueyan, 39, lifted her shirt and bra to expose her breast before offering sexual services for $20, reports show. The agent acknowledged in his report that he grabbed the woman’s breast when she exposed it.

At issue in the State Attorney’s motion is the contention that Judge Ansbro’s comments during a Jan. 29 hearing shows she made up her mind before hearing evidence on why the agent grabbed Xueyan’s breast, according to the motion.

If you have been arrested or charged with a prostitution or other criminal offense in Orlando and are facing criminal prosecution in either Orange County, Seminole County, Florida, contact the attorneys at Tilden Law for an initial and confidential consultation, 407-599-1234.