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Elias Bailon
Also reported as Elias Rudy Bailon, daytona02
Elias Bailon pleaded guilty following the Fort Myers investigation. He received nine months in jail followed by three years of probation.
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- Outcome
- Sentenced
- Evidence
- Attributed reporting
- Jurisdiction
- Fort Myers, Florida
- Encounter
- Not established
- Decoy posed as
- Girl7
- Case number
- 06-CF-016098
Personal details
- Born
- May 26, 1983
- Occupation
- Business owner
- Marital status
- Married
- Height
- 5′5″
- Weight
- 200 lb.
- Hair
- Black
- Eyes
- Brown
Charges & sentence
06-CF-016098
Sentence
Nine months in Lee County jail followed by three years of probation; registration and treatment requirements were also imposed.
Attributed to the sources below. Consult the original record for full terms.
Case records
06-CF-016098Hansen investigation · 2006 · Sentenced
- Case number
- 06-CF-016098
06-CF-016098
Sentence · Oct 23, 2006
Nine months in Lee County jail followed by three years of probation; registration and treatment requirements were also imposed.19
Reviewed sting-related legal outcome. Reviewed all3pages of DOC violation report ea25146f11, case06-CF-016098, including signed original-sentence history onp2. It establishes nine months plus three years and original sentencing date. Agency report filed with clerk is not itself the sentencing judgment. Later absconding allegation is not a new imposed sentence; current whereabouts speculation excluded. Archived narrative says two solicitation convictions, while original arrest packet names one solicitation and one attempted-contact allegation. The latter disposition is unknown; two is retained only as an expressly reported conviction quantity, not a primary-record finding.
06-CF-016098Supervision proceeding · 2008 · Case pending
- Case number
- 06-CF-016098
- Filed
- Mar 18, 2008
Corrections filed a violation report requesting an arrest warrant based on unauthorized departure and failure to report. The reviewed document is a request, not proof the warrant issued or a violation was adjudicated. No later disposition or current whereabouts established. Report dated March 14, 2008; clerk filing stamp March 18, 2008.
Sources 3
Case narrative
Sting
Elias drove two and a half hours to the sting house with a rose, alcohol, and condoms. When he entered the sting house, Elias asked the decoy if she could come out. He starts to put his stuff away, as Chris Hansen approaches him. When questioned about his intentions about having sex with the girl, Elias stated he was married and that his wife would never let him have fun. When Chris asked him what his wife would think if she found out he was going to rape a 14 year old girl, he claimed his wife would divorce him and that his father-in-law's ten brothers would try to kill him. He also admits to seeing men on the news getting arrested for trying to meet children for sex. After Chris revealed that he was with Dateline NBC, and cameramen surrounded Elias, Elias stated he was a "good guy" and "made a mistake." He was arrested by police after leaving the sting house.
Aftermath
In 2006, Elias plead guilty to two felony counts of Use Internet to solicit/attempt solicit a child for sex/lewdness. He was sentenced to 9 months in jail, register as a sex offender for life, take mandatory sexual offender counseling, and placed on probation until 2010. After Elias registered as a sex offender, he fled the United States to Ecuador, although according to The Skip Tracer, he may be back in the United States undetected by U.S. authorities.
Community-written, from the To Catch a Predator Wiki. Not independently verified, and it does not establish charges or court outcomes.
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Media
Sources
- 1Elias Rudy Bailon: probation violation report,06-CF-016098The signed supervision history records an October23,2006 sentence of nine months in Lee County jail followed by three years of probation. The report requests an arrest warrant over alleged probation noncompliance.
- 2Elias Rudy Bailon: first appearance and arrest packetFive rendered pages identify case 06-CF-016098 and April 2006 allegations of attempted lewd battery and computer solicitation. The first-appearance order is not a conviction or sentencing order.
- 3Elias Rudy Bailon: probation violation reportThree rendered pages identify DC Y32447, case 06-CF-016098 and March 14, 2008 request for an arrest warrant alleging unauthorized departure and failure to report. Page two confirms original October 23, 2006 sentence.
- 4Elias Bailon on MegaphonePublic episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Reviewed publisher title/description names this profile as the subject of the recording.
- 5Elias Bailon on SpotifyPublic episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Reviewed publisher title/description names this profile as the subject of the recording.
- 6Elias Rudy Bailon: supervised population recordThe record identifies DC Y32447 and Lee County case 0616098. As of October 18, 2026 it lists ABSCONDER/FUGITIVE, sex offender probation and a June 4, 2007 supervision start. Its old scheduled termination date is not a verified discharge.
- 7Elias Bailon (community wiki)Attributed community article. Revision date describes the article update, not a court or sting event. Full infobox, narrative sections, references and assets are retained in the private archive.
- 8Elias Bailon: occupation informationThe profile infobox lists these occupations. Undated roles do not establish current employment.
- 9Elias Bailon: legal outcome (revision 16165)Nine months in Lee County jail followed by three years of probation; registration and treatment requirements were also imposed.
- 10Elias Bailon: archived criminal-history narrativeAftermath reports two internet child-solicitation guilty counts in 2006. The linked records document initial allegations and a later probation-violation warrant request.