Sting operation
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In law enforcement, a sting operation is a deceptive operation designed to catch a person attempting to commit a crime. A typical sting will have an undercover law enforcement officer, detective, or co-operative member of the public play a role as criminal partner or potential victim and go along with a suspect's actions to gather evidence of the suspect's wrongdoing. Mass media journalists occasionally resort to sting operations to record video and broadcast to expose criminal activity.
Sting operations are common in many countries, such as the United States, but they are not permitted in some countries, such as Sweden or France. There are prohibitions on conducting certain types of sting operations, such as in the Philippines, where it is illegal for law enforcers to pose as drug dealers to apprehend buyers of illegal drugs.
Examples
- Deploying a bait car to catch a car thief
- Setting up a seemingly vulnerable honeypot computer to lure and gain information about hackers
- Offering to pass weapons or explosives to a would-be terrorist
- Luring fugitives out of hiding by sending them mail telling them that they have won a vacation or sports tickets in a competition, which can be collected. In an 1985 sting known as Operation Flagship, US Marshals arrested over 100 fugitives by posing as a television company inviting them to the Washington Convention Center to claim free tickets for a Washington Redskins match. Another established a fictitious airline offering free tickets, arresting those who came to the fake checkin desk at Miami International Airport. Such arrests are significantly safer than arresting the fugitive at their home, as the target will often be unarmed and off-guard.
- Arranging for someone under the legal drinking or smoking age to ask an adult to buy an alcoholic beverage or tobacco products for them
- Posing as a documentary film crew to lure a pirate to the country where a crime was committed.
- Posting a newspaper advertisement seeking a type of rare item known to have been stolen. In 1998, three agencies joined forces to conduct a sting operation where they successfully recovered the Honduras Goodwill Moon Rock from a vault in Miami. The sting operation was known as "Operation Lunar Eclipse" and the participating agencies were NASA Office of Inspector General, the United States Postal Inspection Service and U.S. Customs. The moon rock was offered to the undercover agents for US$5 million. Journalist Christina Reed broke that story in Geotimes in 2002. Operation Lunar Eclipse and the Moon Rock Project were the subject of the book The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks by Joe Kloc.
- Posing as a minor on the internet, luring and catching online predators in the act.
See also
- Advance-fee scam – Type of confidence trick fraud
- ATF fictional sting operations – Campaign of sting operations
- The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks
- Edison divorce torture plot – Kidnap and torture ring
- Entrapment – Legal doctrine
- Fence (criminal) – Person who knowingly buys stolen goods in order to later resell them for profit
- Honey trapping – Investigative practice using romantic or sexual relationships
- Honeypot (computing) – Computer security mechanism
- Informant – Person who provides information
- List of scholarly publishing stings – List of nonsense papers that were accepted by an academic journal or conference
- Mr. Big (police procedure)
- Murder of Rachel Hoffman, the execution of a police informant during a sting operation
- Narada Sting Operation
- Operation Tennessee Waltz
- Possession of stolen goods
- John David Roy Atchison (1954–2007), Assistant US Attorney and children's sports coach, committed suicide in prison after being arrested in a sting operation and charged with soliciting sex from a 5-year-old girl
- Stephen Joseph Ratkai, arrested and convicted of espionage in Canada after a successful sting operation
- The Sting
- Vigilantism in the United States of America
References
- ^ Greenslade, Roy (2 June 2013). "Journalism: to sting or not to sting?". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ "Watch: FBI Targets American Muslims in Abusive Counterterrorism "Sting Operations"". The Huffington Post. 23 July 2014.
- ^ Swedish Supreme Court, verdict B 5039-06.
- ^ Luna, Franco (25 February 2021). "PDEA and PNP scrap 'miss encounter tag on Commonwealth shootout, will wait for probe findings". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ Lagatta, Eric (7 December 2021). "Police arrest three teenagers in 'bait car' sting near Ohio State campus". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ^ Schrage, Michael (26 January 2024). "We Can Trap More Crooks With a Net Full of Honey". Washington Post. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
- ^ "Newburgh Four: judge orders release of man convicted in US terror sting". The Guardian. Associated Press. 20 January 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
- ^ a b c d Antonia Noori Farzan (11 June 2021). "From fake weddings to free flights, elaborate sting operations have ensnared suspects around the world". The Washington Post.
- ^ Clark, Jerry; Palattella, Ed (2019). On the Lam: A History of Hunting Fugitives in America. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 135–137. ISBN 9781442262591.
- ^ "Palm Springs, Coachella Valley – Weather, News, Sports: Special Report: Local police crack down on adults buying booze for minors". kesq.com. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009.
- ^ Christina Reed (September 2002). "Moon rocks for sale!". Geotimes. American Geological Institute. Archived from the original on 18 May 2003.
- ^ Joseph Richard Gutheinz (November 2004). "In Search of the Goodwill Moon Rocks: A Personal Account". Geotimes. American Geological Institute.
- ^ a b Dorgan, Michael (20 April 2024). "Seattle police fatally shoot alleged pedophile during brief standoff, dramatic footage shows". Fox News.
The suspect pulled out a gun during a sting operation during which the suspect thought he was meeting up with 2 underage girls