CHR-Pop WXXL Orlando PD Gary Wheeler Arrested
Jan 11, 2006 13:28:53 GMT -5
Post by EvanJ on Jan 11, 2006 13:28:53 GMT -5
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Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006
WXXL/Orlando PD Adam Cook Arrested
Adam Cook, longtime PD of Clear Channel CHR/Pop WXXL (XL106.7)/Orlando, was arrested Tuesday during a police sting operation.
According to police reports obtained by R&R, Cook, 48, whose real name is Gary Wheeler, was arrested after he showed up a local park believing he was going to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he had met online. That "girl" turned out to be Detective David DeCarlo of the Citrus County Sheriff's Office.
Cook, using the screen name "acook1067," began chatting with the undercover detective in a Yahoo! chat room in May 2005. After months of increasingly sexually explicit conversations, Cook finalized plans last Sunday to meet the underage girl for sex.
According to DeCarlo's arrest records, during the chats, Cook asked the "girl" such questions as, "Are you sure you wanna fool around with me?" and, "I hope there's a place we can go and make out." In the chats, Cook also described, in detail, certain explicit sexual acts he wanted to perform on the girl.
The park was under surveillance by the sheriff's special investigations unit when Cook arrived at 12:45pm Tuesday. As he walked toward the bathroom area to meet the "girl," he was approached by detectives and taken into custody. During a subsequent police interview, Cook, who waived his Miranda rights, admitted he thought he was chatting online with a 14-year-old girl and had come to the park to meet her for sex.
Cook, who is married with two children, is being held on two charges: violation of the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Prevention Act of 1986 and transmitting computer pornography. The later charge stems from police reports that say Cook e-mailed the "girl" a picture of a man's penis.
Cook was placed behind bars Tuesday at the Citrus County Jail, where bail was set at $10,000.
R&R's calls to Clear Channel Radio RVP Linda Byrd were unreturned at press time.
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006
WXXL/Orlando PD Adam Cook Arrested
Adam Cook, longtime PD of Clear Channel CHR/Pop WXXL (XL106.7)/Orlando, was arrested Tuesday during a police sting operation.
According to police reports obtained by R&R, Cook, 48, whose real name is Gary Wheeler, was arrested after he showed up a local park believing he was going to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he had met online. That "girl" turned out to be Detective David DeCarlo of the Citrus County Sheriff's Office.
Cook, using the screen name "acook1067," began chatting with the undercover detective in a Yahoo! chat room in May 2005. After months of increasingly sexually explicit conversations, Cook finalized plans last Sunday to meet the underage girl for sex.
According to DeCarlo's arrest records, during the chats, Cook asked the "girl" such questions as, "Are you sure you wanna fool around with me?" and, "I hope there's a place we can go and make out." In the chats, Cook also described, in detail, certain explicit sexual acts he wanted to perform on the girl.
The park was under surveillance by the sheriff's special investigations unit when Cook arrived at 12:45pm Tuesday. As he walked toward the bathroom area to meet the "girl," he was approached by detectives and taken into custody. During a subsequent police interview, Cook, who waived his Miranda rights, admitted he thought he was chatting online with a 14-year-old girl and had come to the park to meet her for sex.
Cook, who is married with two children, is being held on two charges: violation of the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Prevention Act of 1986 and transmitting computer pornography. The later charge stems from police reports that say Cook e-mailed the "girl" a picture of a man's penis.
Cook was placed behind bars Tuesday at the Citrus County Jail, where bail was set at $10,000.
R&R's calls to Clear Channel Radio RVP Linda Byrd were unreturned at press time.
