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Mustafa "Musti" Ozkan
Mustafa Ozkan was confronted during the Bethpage investigation. No criminal charges followed that encounter.
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- Outcome
- Not charged
- Evidence
- Attributed reporting
- Jurisdiction
- Bethpage, New York
- Encounter
- Not established
- Decoy posed as
- Girl1
- Case number
- Not established
Personal details
- Occupation
- Carpenter
Charges & sentence
Charges awaiting verification
We have not established filed charges from the available evidence. This is a gap in our research, not a finding about this case.
Sentence
A verified sentence has not yet been added.
Attributed to the sources below. Consult the original record for full terms.
Case records
Hansen investigationNot charged
Reviewed sting-related legal outcome. Keep existing identity/alias metadata; no independent resolution of the article's surname history.
Sources 4
Case narrative
Sting
Instead of a real child, "Musti" was welcomed by Chris Hansen when he arrived at the sting house. "Musti" asserted that he discussed sexually explicit content online with all of his friends and maintained it was just a game. "Musti" stated that he and other people "play" when conversing on webcam when Chris asked if he exposed himself on his camera. The rest of "Musti's" interaction with Hansen remains lost.
Aftermath
Since it was Dateline NBC's first investigation into online sexual predators, local law enforcement did not conduct a parallel investigation. Therefore, Musti was never charged with a crime.
2025 update
On February 1, 2025, Peverted Justice founder Xavier Von Erck made a video where he revealed that Musti's real name was Mustafa Ozkan, a Turkish national who was deported in early 2005, although Erck did not reveal why he was forced to leave the United States.
2023 update
Eric was unconvinced that they were telling the truth.
Community-written, from the To Catch a Predator Wiki. Not independently verified, and it does not establish charges or court outcomes.
Mustafa "Musti" Ozkan, To Catch a Predator Wiki contributors; see revision and history links. · CC-BY-SA
Sources
- 1Mustafa "Musti" Ozkan (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.
- 2Source cited in Links (web.archive.org)Source cited in Links (web.archive.org). Linked from Mustafa "Musti" Ozkan, revision 14379; original provenance and document claims require separate verification.
- 3Mustafa "Musti" Ozkan: occupation informationThe profile infobox lists these occupations. Undated roles do not establish current employment.
- 4Mustafa "Musti" Ozkan: legal outcome (revision 14379)Mustafa Ozkan was confronted during the Bethpage investigation. No criminal charges followed that encounter.