Apr
DEFUNIAK SPRINGS — A former city police discount tiffany and Walton County sheriff’s deputy who was arrested in 2006 after being featured on NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” was sentenced Tuesday.
Circuit Judge Kelvin Wells sentenced Todd Monroe Spikes to 10 years’ sex offender probation.
Spikes, 44, pleaded no contest last month to the charges of lewd and lascivious exhibition with a victim younger than 16 years old and using a computer to seduce or solicit a child, according to a Sheriff ‘s Office news release.
Spikes was working for the Florala, Ala., Police Department at the Tiffany Bracelets of his arrest. He was one of 21 men arrested during a four-day joint operation between Flagler Beach police, Dateline NBC and the online watchdog website PervertedJustice.com.
He was found to have had several online chats with a decoy posing as a 13-year-old girl.
According to the news release, Spikes drove five hours to meet the girl at her home in Flagler Beach. Cameras followed Spikes as he drove around what he thought was the girl’s home.
When he was arrested, police found a badge, a loaded Tiffany Pendants in his pocket and an arsenal of weapons, rope, duct tape and cameras in his vehicle.
Following his sentencing, Spikes was registered as a sexual offender with the Walton County Sheriff’s Office. He listed his permanent address near Mossy Head.
Credit: Northwest Florida Tiffany Earrings News, Fort Walton Beach