To Catch a Predator · Riverside County, California investigation
Victor Wells
Also reported as Victor_Wells2002
Victor Wells contacted a decoy posing as a twelve-year-old girl during the January 2006 Riverside County investigation. Hansen later discussed the encounter in his podcast.
- Outcome
- Unverified
- Evidence
- Attributed reporting
- Jurisdiction
- Riverside County, California
- 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
- 1Victor Wells: publisher episode descriptionThe December 25, 2023 episode names Victor Wells, describes contact with a twelve-year-old girl decoy between December 18, 2005 and January 7, 2006, and says it ended in a sit-down with Hansen. It does not name the investigation location, establish arrival at the sting house, distinguish pre-arrest from post-arrest interview, or state a legal outcome.
- 2Victor Wells 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.
- 3Victor Wells 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.
- 4Victor Wells: original publisher openingThe original episode intro identifies the program as Predators I have Caught at 89-94 seconds. At 272-350 seconds it identifies Victor Wells in the January 2006 Riverside County, California investigation, describes his historical work as a truck driver and states the Victor_Wells2002 handle. It gives no precise arrival date or imposed legal sentence in the reviewed passage.