To Catch a Predator · Fort Myers, Florida investigation
Peter Ernandez
Also reported as Pedro
Peter Ernandez contacted a decoy posing as a thirteen-year-old girl during the Fort Myers investigation. Hansen later discussed the encounter in his podcast.
- Outcome
- Unverified
- Evidence
- Attributed reporting
- Jurisdiction
- Fort Myers, Florida
- Encounter
- Not established
- Case number
- Not established
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
No sting-related sentence established in the reviewed sources.
Attributed to the sources below. Consult the original record for full terms.
Media
Sources
- 1Peter Ernandez: publisher episode descriptionThe May 13, 2024 episode names Peter Ernandez as a thirty-year-old teen mental-health counselor working in Punta Gorda, Florida. It describes contact with a decoy posing as a thirteen-year-old girl, his use of Pedro, and plans to meet. One sentence uses Fernandez, a spelling inconsistency that does not establish an alternate identity. No individual sentence is stated.
- 2Peter Ernandez 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.
- 3Peter Ernandez 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.
- 4Peter Ernandez 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.
- 5To Catch a Predator: Fort Myers investigationThe Fort Myers section names Peter Ernandez among the investigation subjects. Its aggregate sentencing description and imperfect list punctuation are not used to assign an individual sentence or another subject occupation.