To Catch a Predator · Harris County investigation
Peter Sciacca
Peter Sciacca was convicted following the Fortson investigation. His sentence included ten years with five years to serve, 15 years of probation, and lifetime registration.
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- Outcome
- Sentenced
- Evidence
- Attributed reporting
- Jurisdiction
- Harris County, Georgia
- Encounter
- Not established
- Decoy posed as
- Boy3
- Case number
- 07-CR-087
Personal details
- Born
- December 1, 1967
- Marital status
- Single
- Height
- 5′4″
- Weight
- 390 lb.
- Hair
- Brown
- Eyes
- Grey
- Died
- October 12, 2021
Charges & sentence
Case records
07-CR-087Hansen investigation · Sentenced
- Case number
- 07-CR-087
07-CR-087
Sentence
Ten years in prison with a minimum of five years to serve, 15 years of probation, and lifetime registration.5
Reviewed sting-related legal outcome. Split prison wording preserved exactly. Later probation termination following death is not an acquittal or vacatur. February19,2007 stated conviction date; exact sentence date not separately established. Community report identifies case 07-CR-087 and July 13, 2022 petition, reportedly granted August 5 after death. Available filing image is cropped, so no court-record upgrade or reconstructed split sentence.
Case narrative
Biography
It didn't take long for Peter to turn it up a notch and start to ask him about the things he likes to do sexually. The decoy expressed frustration about not being able to come out in his conservative neighborhood, fearing physical assault. Peter replied to this by asking if he wants a secret lover. They also spoke over the phone where they talked about getting away from Georgia together. As the decoy expresses boredom in the conversation and tried to get off the phone, Sciacca tried coaxing the decoy to remain on the phone to no avail.
Sting and arrest
Peter would drive two hours in his Hummer H3 SUV from the Atlanta suburb of Norcross to the sting house. It is drizzling outside when he pulls up. He automatically figures out something is wrong when Del Harvey , as the decoy, comes out with her face covered up trying to wave him in. Her voice is several octaves lower than the decoy Peter spoke with on the phone, who sounded like he was still growing into his voice. She also put a southern twang into her voice, which the phone decoy did not have. Suspicious, Peter asks Del to take her hat off to get a better look and heads back to his car when she refuses. He is quickly arrested by officers from the Harris County Sheriff's Office, never getting a chance to be confronted by Chris Hansen . As he was being carted away, the Dateline camera crew zoomed in on his face, to which Peter politely asked for them to get the camera out of his face.
Trivia
Chris Hansen mispronounces Peter's last name as "See-kah" in his post-production voiceover. ”Don Cheech” is also the name of a restaurant in Staten Island New York.
Community-written, from the To Catch a Predator Wiki. Not independently verified, and it does not establish charges or court outcomes.
Peter Sciacca, To Catch a Predator Wiki contributors; see revision and history links. · CC-BY-SA
Media
Sources
- 1100: Peter Sciacca 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.
- 2100: Peter Sciacca 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.
- 3Peter Sciacca (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.
- 4Source cited in Sentence and death (i.redd.it)Source cited in Sentence and death (i.redd.it). Linked from Peter Sciacca, revision 16288; original provenance and document claims require separate verification.
- 5Peter Sciacca: legal outcome (revision 16288)Ten years in prison with a minimum of five years to serve, 15 years of probation, and lifetime registration.
- 6Sciacca probation-termination report with cropped filingPost identifies Harris case 07-CR-087 and reports 2022 termination after death. Cropped filing names Peter Sciacca and a 2007 conviction; incomplete text does not establish the full sentence structure.