Devon Weiss, 24, of Lansdale.
A Lansdale man is headed to jail after pleading guilty to all charges stemming from his September 2022 arrest which came on the heels of a confrontation with an online vigilante sex predator group.
Devon Weiss, 24, was sentenced on Monday to 8 to 23 months in the Bucks County Correctional Facility after pleading guilty to attempted unlawful contact with a minor – sex offenses, criminal use of a communication facility, attempted sale of obscene or sexual materials to a minor, and attempted corruption of a minor. Following his release, Weiss will serve another three years of probation, court records show.
Sentencing notes indicate that if Weiss serves 90 days of jail time with no misconduct, the court will entertain a petition for work release. He is also prohibited from having unsupervised contact with minors while under court supervision.
According to the criminal complaint, a vigilante investigator with the Houston, TX-based “Predator Poachers” contacted the Central Bucks Regional Police Department on Aug. 10, 2022, regarding sexual communications he allegedly had with Weiss while working as a decoy pretending to be a 13-year-old male. The decoy said he had created a profile on the Grindr app and connected with Weiss, and the two began messaging each other through the app and later via text message, the report states.
During the conversations, the decoy told Weiss he was only 13 years old, to which Weiss replied. “Damn that’s young” and “Would love to see more of you, but I don’t know if I should,” police said. Weiss also sent the decoy a bare-chested photo of himself, as well as an image of his penis, according to charging documents.
On July 24, 2022, Weiss and the decoy agreed to meet at Veterans Memorial Park in Doylestown, with Weiss saying they could “cuddle, watch Netflix, have sex and play video games,” the report states. Upon Weiss’ arrival, the decoy then confronted him on his cell phone camera, at which point Weiss allegedly grabbed for the phone and drove away at a high rate of speed, police said.
Afterwards, the decoy provided all communications and evidence to police, along with the license plate of the vehicle at the meet up, which was used to identify Weiss as the suspect, police said.
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