Florida busts 22 men in online sex sting

Florida authorities said Tuesday they busted men from as far away as Texas and Maryland in an Internet sex sting that netted 22 arrests. The arrests began last month and concluded this weekend, capping an undercover operation in which Polk County sheriff's deputies posed as minors or their guardians on the Internet. "I call them the worst type of perverts," Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference. "Do you sense the danger these men pose to any young child they meet?" Deputies from Judd's office and three other counties took part in the investigation, dubbed Operation Last House Call, the Orlando Sentinel said. Orlando and Plant City police officers as well as state prosecutors and investigators were also involved. The suspects ranged from teenage students to men in their 60s. One suspect, Andrei Jezierski, claimed to be the former chief executive officer of Sky Latin America pay-television network, the Sentinel said. All had responded to alluring personal ads posted by the undercover officers on Craigslist and other social Web sites.