LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Police and federal officers arrested a Las Vegas pastor as he ready to satisfy an individual he believed was a teenage boy for intercourse, in keeping with paperwork the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained Monday.
Neal Creecy, 46, faces a cost of luring or trying to lure a baby or mentally unwell individual with the usage of laptop know-how to have interaction in sexual conduct, information stated.
All through August, the Nevada Web Crimes In opposition to Youngsters Job Drive, together with the FBI and a number of other Southern Nevada police departments, arrested at the very least eight males as a part of a sting operation.
For the previous 5 years, Creecy has rented house inside The Good Samaritan Lutheran Church on Sahara and Cimarron, the place he operates his non secular group, Redemption Church, church leaders stated.
On Thursday, Aug. 7, Creecy allegedly chatted with an individual posing as a 14-year-old boy about assembly for “sexual contact,” police stated. Creecy didn’t present any photos in the course of the dialog however agreed to satisfy who he thought was a young person at a “predetermined meeting location,” police stated.
Creecy allegedly then drove to that location, resulting in his arrest, police stated.
Police recovered an iPad from Creecy, which they stated was the system he used within the on-line dialog, paperwork stated.
Throughout an interview with police, Creecy “admitted to having been involved in the conversation with the decoy… and made the utterance, “I’m so sorry,” paperwork stated.
Creecy posted bond shortly after his arrest and was on account of return to court docket on Sept. 2.
W. Don Seaborg, president of pastoral help for Redemption Church, stated final week that Creecy will not be affiliated with The Good Samaritan Church and solely rents house.
The undercover operation concerned a number of businesses, together with the FBI, Homeland Safety, Metro police, Henderson police and North Las Vegas police.
