Disney worker, teacher among 160 arrested in Florida human trafficking sting

160 people were arrested in a seven-day operation focused on human trafficking in Florida including a Disney employee, schoolteachers and a state corrections officer, according to authorities.

Sheriff Grady Judd of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that 26 of those charged in “Fall Haul 2” were married men and 15 involved people from outside Florida, reports NBC 8 WFLA.

One out-of-state arrest was Jason DiPrima, a 49-year-old deputy police chief from Georgia who allegedly tried to hire an undercover detective posing as a prostitute last Thursday with $180 and a variety pack of White Claw Hard Seltzer.

State prison guard Keith Nieves, a 24-year-old from Orlando, was another government employee caught in the sting. He was arrested after trying to have sex with a prostitute who turned out to be an undercover detective, according to the sheriff’s office.

“He’s in the jail as a jail bird like the jail birds he watches,” the sheriff said.

The roundup also snagged Guillermo Perez, a 57-year-old Disney bellhop accused of trying to pay an undercover detective $80 for sex.

Operation Fall Haul 2 also caught two currently employed Florida teachers for attempting to engage in sex acts with a prostitute.

36-year-old Carlos Gonzalez, a math teacher at New Dimensions High School in Osceola County, was arrested despite his claim that he was going to give the two prostitutes money and leave without having sex.

The other teacher was John Layton, a 26-year-old physical education teacher at West Orange High School in Orange County.

Of the arrests, Sheriff Judd seemed most flabbergasted by Cameron Burke, 43, who was already on bond after being accused of having a sex with a 15-year-old student at Oak Ridge High School in Orange County, where he worked as a computer technician at the time.

“Dude, why didn’t you think of that ahead of time?” the sheriff said. “Of course, you only have three brain cells.”

At the press conference, the sheriff took a break from his light-hearted comments about the clients of prostitution to emphasize the suffering of victims of human trafficking who are used as sex workers.

Authorities encounter two human trafficking victims during the operation, along with five other possible victims.