A joint effort between the FBI and St. Louis City Police helped round up a dangerous suspected child predator.
His story was scheduled to run on FOX 2's St. Louis' Most Wanted Saturday, but after searching for him for a couple of weeks city police were able to arrest him without incident.
"This individual in addition to sexual molestation charges that have been brought by St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, he's also wanted for child pornography," says FBI Supervisory Special Agent Zachary T. Lowe, Jr.
The exact charges against 28-year-old Donnell McCloud include production of child pornography, four counts of statutory rape, four counts of statutory sodomy and one count of child molestation and assault.
"McCloud is a very dangerous predator in our community," says Lowe. He was once a predator on the prowl, now behind bars. McCloud was arrested Thursday night.
The FBI says St. Louis City Police kind of stumbled across the case while serving a search warrant at McCloud's home in mid February on an unrelated matter.
But when they got there McCloud had a child living with him and there was evidence of sexual abuse."We believe McCloud met one of his victims through the internet and lured them to the
The feds say the two met in an internet chat room, and had been communicating for over a month. The feds and city police now hope parents in our area will sleep a little better knowing one less child predator is on the streets.
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