Scott Allen Smith

Smith came in a moving truck to the sting house after driving over one hundred and one miles. Smith followed Dana's instructions and headed down the walkway to the back of the house. He carried a six pack of grape-flavored Smirnoff Ice into the house. Chris Hansen then confronted the man. Smith insisted that he had never groomed a minor before. He pinned the blame on the decoy, stating that she kept talking about sex when he just wanted to come over and talk to her. Smith maintained that he had brought the alcohol for the girl's mother when he was questioned about it. Chris instantly refuted the lie and professed to have the transcripts.

Smith then acknowledged that a month before to showing up at the sting house, he was caught communicating with another Perverted Justice operative who was posing as a child. He stated he was merely conversing and hadn't used any sexually explicit words. Then Smith cited "roleplay" as an explanation, saying that anyone could appear to be someone they're not online and that he wasn't the type of person searching for sex with a girl. He said that "curiosity got the best of him." When Scott was exposed on NBC by Chris, he fled from the house and was arrested by police.

After informing Smith of his rights and securing his waiver of them, investigator Gary Bowen questioned him. Smith acknowledged that he had an online conversation with a girl he thought was thirteen years old. He insisted that it was "all talk" and that hadn't had sex with her at all. Smith then admitted that he was at the house to perform oral copulation on the girl and to insert his fingers into her buttocks.

Smith was charged with a felony count of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age, a felony count of attempted oral copulation with a minor under 14 years of age and more than a 10-year age difference between victim and offender, and a misdemeanor count of possession of methamphetamine.

Perverted Justice claimed that Smith wouldn't be present for any of his hearings, but Hansen claimed he was rearrested in January of 2009 for missing a hearing, which means he must've attended a few but not attended enough, leading to him having his bond revoked. He eventually ran out of money to pay for his lawyer and was appointed a public defence attorney. The trial court in Smith's case rejected his request to instruct the jury on entrapment for two reasons: first, there was no evidence that Perverted Justice acted as an agent of law enforcement; second, even if it had, there was no proof that Tharme persuaded him to do something he would not have done. When his trial eventually started in the spring of 2009, the defence contended that law enforcement agents had planted the methamphetamine found in a vial found on Smith's keychain. When the jury was unable to reach a verdict, the court dismissed that charge. However, in 2010, he was found guilty on both felony counts against him. He was sentenced to one year and six months in state prison and lifetime registration as a sex offender.

In 2010, Smith filed an appeal stating that the prosecutor engaged in prejudicial misconduct during the closing argument, the trial court improperly admitted evidence about the number of people caught in the sting operation and contended that the trial court's decision to deny the jury instruction on the defence of entrapment was a reversible error because his attorney failed to object to the prosecutor's purported misconduct. The jury instruction on reasonable doubt asks the jury to consider evidence that was not presented at trial and is, therefore, incorrect; the cumulative effect of the errors is prejudicial; and the commission of the charged crimes is not supported by the evidence to the extent that the jury inferred that the defendant engaged in an action that was a direct step toward the commission of the offence. Smith's allegations were rejected by the court as being without merit. As a result, they upheld his conviction. Smith became homeless following his conviction, but in 2018, the courts forgave the debts he owed over the fines relating to his 2006 arrest.

Although a fan-made partially uncut edit utilising his televised segment and Predator Raw entry exists, Smith's full uncut interview may have never been released, as no dead MSNBC page or internet text archive exist to prove it.