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Selwyn Knights
Also reported as Selwyn Augustine Knights, Selwyn A. Knights
Selwyn Knights was arrested during the Ocean County, New Jersey investigation. He received lifetime parole supervision and a lifetime sex-offender registration requirement.
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- Outcome
- Sentenced
- Evidence
- Attributed reporting
- Jurisdiction
- Ocean County, New Jersey
- Encounter
- Not established
- Decoy posed as
- Girl2
- Case number
- Not established
Personal details
- Born
- November 20, 1969
- Occupation
- Communications supervisor
- Restaurant worker
- Business manager
- Marital status
- Married
- Hair
- Bald
Charges & sentence
Case records
Hansen investigationOcean County, New Jersey · Sentenced
Sentence
Lifetime parole supervision and lifetime registration.4
Reviewed sting-related legal outcome. Saved original arrest report visually reviewed; other saved PDFs concern unrelated civil debt, not criminal sentencing. Do not treat lifetime supervision as imprisonment. Private family and financial details excluded. Original arrest report names two offense groups but has a total-crimes field of three; no third offense or individual count quantities are invented. Prosecutor reference 070300302 is not used as a court docket. Age field appears inconsistent with birth year and is not imported.
Case narrative
Sting and Aftermath
When the decoy agreed to meet him, Knights arrived in the morning, got lost in the neighborhood, ran into some police, and returned to his house. He later made the decision to randomly turn up unannounced the following evening. The decoy, played by Casey Mauro , tried to get him into the sting house. When Knights noticed a second car approaching, he became anxious. He informed Casey that he will move his truck despite her insisting he enter the house. Instead, he was apprehended by the Ocean County Police Department when they follow him down the street. For his crimes, Knights was sentenced to lifetime parole and lifetime registration as a sex offender. His marriage managed to survive the ordeal.
Community-written, from the To Catch a Predator Wiki. Not independently verified, and it does not establish charges or court outcomes.
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Sources
- 1Selwyn A. Knights: original Ocean County arrest reportRendered original report identifies Selwyn A. Knights, communications supervisor, arrested March 31, 2007 in the Mantoloking operation. It names attempted sexual assault and luring; no final charge disposition appears.
- 2Selwyn Knights (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.
- 3Selwyn Knights: occupation informationThe profile infobox lists these occupations. Undated roles do not establish current employment.
- 4Selwyn Knights: legal outcome (revision 16085)Lifetime parole supervision and lifetime registration.
- 5Selwyn Knights: archived criminal-history narrativeCommunity narrative reviewed for the explicitly identified subject; not a court record.