The
Pawnee County Sheriff told News On 6 the investigation started when a
middle school student turned in an older classmate for making a lewd
proposal. That case led investigators to a social media app and to 11
men, who the sheriff says were targeting underage boys for sex.
Pawnee
County deputies have made 11 child sex crime arrests in just over a
month. Sheriff Mike Waters said the suspects were caught through an app
called Grindr.
“It's jaw dropping, it's unbelievable,” said Waters. “The public needs to know; the parents need to know how dangerous this is.”
Waters
said three of the men live in Pawnee. The others are from Pawhuska,
Ponca City, Stillwater, Ripley, Oilton, Glencoe and
Vinita.
The sheriff said all of the suspects knew, or believed, they were talking with underage boys.
In some cases, court records show the men were actually messaging an undercover deputy.
“It's
scary to sit there and think somebody would drive from Vinita, Oklahoma
to Pawnee for that purpose. It's serious,” said Waters.
Two of the men, 25-year-old Thomas Muench and 25-year-old Quinton Griesel, are charged with rape.
An
affidavit shows Griesel had sex with a 16-year-old boy in a bathroom
stall at Pawnee High School. The court document shows Griesel worked for
a food service vendor at the time and served lunch at the
school.
Another
affidavit said Muench had sex with a 15-year-old boy somewhere else.
The sheriff says that crime did not happen on any school property.
Court records show both men met the teenagers on Grindr.
“I
don't think kids understand how dangerous this is, and I can guarantee
the parents don't,” said Pawnee and Osage County District Attorney, Mike
Fisher.
Fisher
said law enforcement and schools can only do so much to protect
children. He said parents have to step up, block cell phone apps, know
who their kids are talking with and know what they're doing.
“Old-fashioned
parenting is the best way to do it and that's to stay in communication
with your child, look at their phone. Don't be afraid to do that,”
Fisher said.
The
other men are facing charges ranging from lewd acts with a minor, to
soliciting a minor for sex and child porn.
The
district attorney said someone caught with one image of child porn face
up to 20 years in prison. He said someone with more than 100 child porn
images can go to prison for life.
Oklahoma court records show the charges prosecutors have filed against the suspects in this investigation.
-Cody Cramer, 34, is charged with forcible sodomy.
-Charles
Boggs, 55, is charged with soliciting sexual conduct with a minor
through technology and showing obscene material to a minor.
-Gabriel
Primeaux, 28, is charged with soliciting sexual conduct with a minor
through technology, showing obscene material to a minor and soliciting a
minor for indecent exposure or obscene material.
-Jacob
Simmons, 20, is charged with soliciting sexual conduct with a minor
through technology, showing obscene material to a minor and possession
of child pornography.
-Johnathan
Tackett, 33, is charged with soliciting sexual conduct with a minor
through technology, showing obscene material to a minor and possession
of child pornography.
-Michael
Wilson, 45, is charged with soliciting sexual conduct with a minor
through technology and showing obscene material to a minor.
-Zachary
Sabus, 37, is charged with soliciting sexual conduct with a minor
through technology, showing obscene material to a minor, possession of
child pornography and peeping tom.
-Quinton Griesel, 25, is charged with second degree rape, forcible sodomy and lewd or indecent acts with a child.
-Thomas
Muench, 25, is charged with second degree rape, soliciting sexual
conduct with a minor through technology and possession of child
pornography.
-News On 6 learned just before noon Tuesday charges against Keith Ray, 29, were dismissed.
-Marty
McDougall-Casteel, 40, is booked into the Pawnee County jail and facing
charges of soliciting sexual conduct with a minor through technology,
soliciting a minor for indecent exposure or obscene material and showing
obscene material to a minor.
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