Thomas Taylor
Event Date: January 16, 2004
Cruise Bruise: Soliticing Sex With A Child
Bruise Location: Costa Rica
Name: Thomas Taylor & Christine Taylor
Age: 52 & 42
Home Town: Myrtle Beach, SC
Cruise Line: Carnival Cruise Lines
Ship: Unknown
Details:
Operation Turn Around, and FBI string in coordiantion with the Fort Lauderdale Police, and working with Costa Rican authorities to bust U.S. citizens traveling to Central American countries in order to have sex with children, rounded up some pedophiles in this string to protect exploited children, many of them child sex slaves.
From December 2003 to August 2004, the FBI arrested 11 individuals as part of the sting. The outcome landed 11 people in jail, including a police officer, a middle school teacher, a carnival worker, and a real estate agent.
Thomas Taylor, a 52-year-old male, was employed as a realtor in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Thomas' wife, Christine Taylor, a 42-year-old female, was a housewife in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, at the time of her arrest.
The Taylors were arrested on January 16, 2004, when they boarded a Carnival Cruise ship en route to San Jose, Costa Rica.
In the weeks prior to their arrest, Tom Taylor had numerous conversations with an undercover officer in which he made arrangements and paid to have two 16-year-old girls delivered to a hotel room in Costa Rica to engage in sexual relations with his wife, Christine.
On April 22, 2004, Tom and Christine Taylor pleaded guilty to conspiracy to travel in foreign commerce with the intent to engage in sexual acts with minors.
Others Florida Perverts Caged In Operation Turn Around:
John Bollea, a 70 year old male from Lighthouse Point, Florida. On April 2, 2004, Bollea pleaded guilty to one (1) count of attempting to travel in foreign commerce to engage in sexual relations with a minor.
Mark Dudley, a 49 year old male, worked as a food vendor at local carnivals prior to his arrest on January 19, 2004. Dudley, a native of Daytona Beach, Florida. Dudley entered a guilty plea on April 26, 2004, to one (1) count of attempting to travel in foreign commerce to engage in sexual relations with a minor.
Glenn Koenemann, a 56 year old male, was arrested on January 20, 2004. At the time of his arrest, Koenemann was working as an arborist in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He entered a guilty plea to one (1) count of attempting to travel in foreign commerce to engage in sexual relations with a minor, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2423(e), and one (1) count of attempting to engage in a commercial sex act with a minor.
Gerald Alter, a 68 year old male from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was employed as a furniture salesperson in Sunrise, Florida, at the time of his arrest. Alter later pleaded guilty to one (1) count of knowingly receiving child pornography.
James Marquez, a 47 year old male, was employed at the International Game Fishing Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the time of his arrest. Marquez entered a guilty plea to one (1) count of attempting to induce a minor child to engage in prostitution.
Derek Roberts, a 30 year old male, was employed as a police officer at the Hollywood Police Department at the time of his arrest on June 10, 2004. After a jury trial, Roberts was found guilty of attempting to engage in a commercial sex act with a minor child.
Wallace David Strevell, a 33 year old male from Exton, Pennsylvania, was employed as a bartender at the time of his arrest on July 11, 2004. Strevell was convicted of violations of attempting to travel in foreign commerce to engage in sexual relations with a minor, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2423(e), attempting to engage in a commercial sex act with a minor, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1594(a), and attempting to induce a minor child to engage in prostitution.
Vincent Springer, a 42 year old male from Vero Beach, Florida, was employed as a mechanic at the time of his arrest on July 16, 2004. Springer was found guilty of attempting to travel in foreign commerce to engage in sexual relations with a minor, in violation of Title18, United States Code, Section 2423(e), attempting to engage in a commercial sex act with a minor, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1594(a), and attempting to induce a minor child to engage in prostitution.
George C. Clarke, a 43 year old male from Westfield, N.J., was employed as a middle school math and science teacher at the time of his arrest. Clarke was found guilty by a federal jury in Miami of attempting to travel in foreign commerce to engage in sexual relations with a minor, in violation of Title18, United States Code, Section 2423(e), attempting to engage in a commercial sex act with a minor, in violation of Title18, United States Code, Section 1594(a), and attempting to induce a minor child to engage in prostitution.
In another arrest:
Dr. Arthur Carl Kanev, 57, was arrested last July as he returned to his mother's condominium in Pompano Beach after a monthlong stakeout by Broward County sheriff's deputies. Kanev a retired American dentist accused of drugging girls for sex at a beach house in Costa Rica has agreed to be sent to Costa Rica for extradition. Costa Rican authorities arrested Kanev after hundreds of pictures of child pornography were found at his beach house in 1999. Authorities said Kanev and a cohort drugged and raped local girls, some as young as 13, and took pornographic pictures of them. Kanev, formerly from Waltham, MA., fled Costa Rica while free on bail.
Thomas Taylor Case Details 1 2
Thomas Taylor & Christine Taylor
Guilty - Intent To Engage In Sexual Acts With Minors
Carnival Cruise Lines - April 22, 2004
