To Catch a Predator · Ocean County, New Jersey investigation
Kazuo Akutsu
Also reported as Kaz
Kazuo Akutsu was arrested during the Ocean County investigation. A three-year prison sentence was reported in 2008.
- Outcome
- Sentenced
- Evidence
- Attributed reporting
- Jurisdiction
- Ocean County, New Jersey
- Encounter
- Not established
- Case number
- Not established
Charges & sentence
Attempted sexual assault
Unverified5
Sentence
Three years in prison, with credit for time served; lifetime supervision and registration were also reported.
Attributed to the sources below. Consult the original record for full terms.
Case records
Hansen investigationOcean County, New Jersey · 2008 · Sentenced
Attempted sexual assault
Unverified5
Sentence · Feb 1, 2008
Publisher reports prison term and supervision conditions; official judgment not reviewed.15
Recorded release · Aug 29, 2008
Historical release reported in publisher description. Release type and present custody are not inferred.1
Publisher uses lifetime probation; no official judgment was available to establish whether the legal condition was probation or parole supervision. The three-year term is an imposed prison sentence, not time served. No present custody inference.
Media
Sources
- 1Kazuo Akutsu: publisher episode descriptionThe July 15, 2024 episode identifies Kazuo Akutsu, calls him Kaz, and reports a March 30, 2007 arrest. It describes a three-year prison sentence imposed February 1, 2008, credit for time served, lifetime probation and sex-offender registration, and an August 29, 2008 release. These are publisher-reported historical claims, not a current custody check or a reviewed judgment.
- 2Kazuo Akutsu on MegaphonePublic episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Exact full-name episode title and original publisher description identify this subject and the described decoy encounter. No legal or present-custody inference is made from platform metadata.
- 3Kazuo Akutsu on SpotifyPublic episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Exact full-name episode title and original publisher description identify this subject and the described decoy encounter. No legal or present-custody inference is made from platform metadata.
- 4Kazuo Akutsu on Apple PodcastsPublic episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Exact full-name episode title and original publisher description identify this subject and the described decoy encounter. No legal or present-custody inference is made from platform metadata.
- 5Contemporaneous sentencing report mentioning Kazuo AkutsuA February 18, 2008 news repost separately identifies Kazuo Akutsu as a Manhattan salesman sentenced to three years for attempted sexual assault in the Mantoloking investigation. The surrounding article concerns Howard Thornton; Thornton-specific pleas and supervision terms are not attributed to Akutsu.
- 6Kazuo Akutsu: archived investigation redirectThis archived name page redirects Kazuo Akutsu to Ocean County, New Jersey. It contains no individual legal narrative.