Florida has a lot of time to set up stings that have nothing to do with serious crimes, but I digress.
Here is the story via NY Daily News.
Kenneth Anthony Lopez, 20, was charged with five counts of simple battery for allegedly targeting women, and slapping or grabbing their buttocks over the past four months at a Cooper City subdivision popular with joggers.
When approached by authorities, he blurted out that he thought he knew the victim and “only touched her a little bit.”
The department had actually set up a sting operation at the subdivision on Tuesday, the day of the arrest, and used a decoy in hopes of drawing out the suspect.
That plan was not a success, but 45 minutes after it ended they got a call from a woman who was groped by a man with the same description as the perpetrator in the other incidents.
The officers raced over to the scene and found Lopez.
The suspect was dressed in dark clothing and was holding a blue hat that he wore to conceal his face when he grabbed the woman’s left buttock, authorities said in a report.