Bemidji Pioneer: Sex sting training nets actual arrest in Nisswa: Man faces felonies for soliciting juvenile

NISSWA, Minn. — For more than 350 law enforcement officers at Grand View Lodge in Nisswa Thursday, Nov. 2, a demonstration on disrupting demand for underage sex trafficking became real life.

A conference of the Minnesota Sex Crimes Investigators Association featured a session led by Minneapolis police Sgt. Grant Snyder, a member of the department's human trafficking team. Set to discuss Operation Guardian Angel—a team of investigators who use technology to fight demand for sex trafficking—Snyder posted a live advertisement as an instructional tool. Answering, according to police, was 58-year-old Jack Laverne Bedell of Owosso, Mich. Bedell allegedly told an officer posing as a young woman advertising sex he was headed to the Brainerd area and wanted to meet up. According to a criminal complaint filed against Bedell, he continued to pursue sex for money even after the undercover officer told him the girl was almost 16 years old.

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