{"id":4196,"date":"2016-12-16T06:19:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T11:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2016-12-16T06:19:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T11:19:22","slug":"creep-catchers-has-a-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/12\/16\/creep-catchers-has-a-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Man targeted by Creep Catchers sentenced to prison, a first in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHILLIWACK, B.C. \u2014 A British Columbia man targeted by the vigilante group Creep Catchers has been sentenced to prison.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-seven-year-old Don Putt was sentenced to six months, but with credit for time served he will spend five months and two days behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Putt pleaded guilty this week to one count of child luring after he was recorded in October by Fraser Valley Creep Catchers.<\/p>\n<p>He thought he was meeting a 12-year-old boy at a fast food restaurant in Chilliwack, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s believed to be the first time in Canada that a Creep Catchers sting has resulted in jail time.<\/p>\n<p>Police have expressed concerns about the citizen group, warning that confronting alleged child predators could put people in danger and compromise official investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.com\/CNEWS\/Crime\/2016\/12\/15\/22690580.html?cid=rssnewscrime\" target=\"_blank\">Canoe.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">CHILLIWACK, B.C. \u2014 A British Columbia man targeted by the vigilante group Creep Catchers has been sentenced to prison. Sixty-seven-year-old Don Putt was sentenced to six months, but with credit for time served he will <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/12\/16\/creep-catchers-has-a-first\/\" title=\"Man targeted by Creep Catchers sentenced to prison, a first in Canada\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[2355,2354,2356],"class_list":{"0":"post-4196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-news","9":"tag-child-luring","10":"tag-creep-catchers","11":"tag-sting","12":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}