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FDLE, HCSO, FDC: 29 arrested in Operation Lights Out

For Immediate Release 

November 21, 2025

 

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – Inspectors, agents and analysts with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) partnered with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) and the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) in the arrest of 29 sexual offenders and sexual predators for violations of Florida law.

 

The four-day operation targeted registrants residing in the rural cities in Hillsborough County who were on active supervision with FDC to ensure they were complying with both the conditions of their supervised sentences and Florida’s registration laws.

 

During the operation, contact was made with 63 suspects in Hillsborough County. Members of FDLE’s Enforcement and Investigative Support Bureau (EIS) and the FDLE Tampa Bay Regional Operations Center, together with the HCSO, reviewed registration information for each subject while FDC officials conducted probation searches. 


The investigation led to 29 suspects being apprehended, including 19 sexual offenders and 10 sexual predators.


Arrests:  

Richard Archer, 65, sexual offender

Herbert Bowers, 78, sexual offender

George Bryan, 76, sexual offender

Jesus Castellano-Mojica, 84, predator

David Roldan Crespo, 33, predator

Trevor Essary, 31, sexual offender

Stevens Gabriel, 36, sexual offender

Jesus Garcia Jr., 20, sexual offender

Caleb Garrison, 25, predator

David Gilliland, 61, predator

Sonny Gyger, 44, sexual offender

Joseph Haueter, 35, sexual offender

Raymond Hentschel, 77, sexual offender

Johnny Huston, 33, sexual offender

Eric Kuhn, 56, sexual offender

William Luciano, 73, sexual offender

John Marshall, 35, sexual offender

Brenton McNeil, 33, predator

Derrick Olson, 37, sexual offender

Martin Pineiro, 77, predator

Daniel Post, 61, predator

David Risner, 45, sexual offender

Michael Rivera, 37, sexual offender

Henry Shareef, 54, predator

Amett Santiago, 35, predator

Joseph Stracuzzi, 37, sexual offender

Timothy Walker, 56, predator

Anthony Williams, 63, sexual offender

Bradley Wimmer, 44, sexual offender 


The 29 suspects face charges including failure to properly report changes to vehicles, email addresses, and internet identifiers, and providing false sexual offender registration information by act or omission. Charges also included violations of probation for possession of alcohol, unauthorized internet access involving the viewing of videos containing prepubescent children, searching for and possession of pornographic/sexual stimulating material, attempting to contact the victim of the qualifying sexual offense, unauthorized utilization of a social media/networking account, failure to complete court ordered community service, display of Halloween decorations, and commission of new felony offenses while on active supervision with FDC.

 

All suspects were booked into the Hillsborough County Jail. Additional felony charges may be forthcoming pending further investigation. 


The cases will be prosecuted by the State Attorney’s Office for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. 


FDLE’s Missing Persons and Offender Enforcement Division partners with sheriff’s offices, police departments and federal law enforcement across Florida to verify compliance with Florida’s registration laws requiring sex offenders and predators to report to their local sheriff’s office and provide information including residential addresses, telephone numbers, vehicle information, internet identifiers, photograph, passport and conviction information.


Citizens can access Florida’s Sex Offender Registry by downloading the FDLE Mobile App and search the online Florida’s Sex Offender Registry at Sexual Offenders and Predators Search.

 

 

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