Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that 205 alleged child sex predators who preyed on children online have been arrested in the last five days. 

The arrests are part of a new joint operation by the Justice Department and FBI called “Operation Restore Justice,” which saw 115 children across the country rescued in the process, Bondi and Patel said.

Bondi called the operation “historic” and “unprecedented,” and she warned parents to be vigilant of sex predators posing as children online. The operation spanned 55 field offices. 

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“These depraved human beings, if convicted, will face the maximum penalty in prison, some [for] life,” Bondi said at a press briefing. We will find you. We will arrest you, and we will charge you. If you are online targeting a child, you will not escape us. The FBI and the Department of Justice will come after you. And we will prosecute you.”

In Minneapolis, for example, a state trooper and Army Reservist was arrested for allegedly producing child sexual abuse material while wearing his uniforms. In Norfolk, Virginia, an illegal alien from Mexico is accused of transporting a minor across state lines for sex. In Washington, D.C., a former Metropolitan Police Department police officer was arrested for allegedly trafficking minor victims.

“No more,” Patel said. “If you harm our children, you will be given no sanctuary. There is no place we will not come to hunt you down. There is no place we will not look for you, and there is no cage we will not put you in should you do harm to our children, the prioritization of this administration.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi warned parents to be vigilant about their children’s online activity. ((AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein))

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Bondi implored parents to monitor what their kids are doing online and said that children have no right to privacy online. 

“An online predator can find them, I always say it’s from instant message to instant nightmare,” Bondi said. “Parents, they’re talking to your kids like they’re other children and they’re not. They’re predators. They pose as children. They get them sometimes to post explicit pictures of themselves after they talk to them and then in some cases, they even try to blackmail the children.”

The operation spanned 55 FBI field offices.  (iStock)

Bondi said that the suicide rate among teens aged 14 to 17 has increased as a result of these types of sex predators targeting children, because “teens are taken advantage of and are manipulated online by child predators. So all of you being here today and covering this is so important because parents need to know you’ve got to talk to your kids. They think they’re talking to other children, but most of the time they’re not.”

DETROIT (FOX 2) – A large fire at a scrapyard in Southwest Detroit on Wednesday morning prompted crews from the fire department to respond.

The Detroit Fire Department had the blaze under control, however there are concerns of air quality in the surrounding area and it would take several hours to get the fire under wraps.

What we know:

A scrapyard located near Lonyo and Dix caught fire Wednesday morning, sending flames into the sky and smoke billowing over Southwest Detroit.

The pile consists of various appliances like washers, dryers, and bicycles, as well as miscellaneous scrap metal. Batteries are also part of the pile and could be linked to the cause of the blaze. 

The scrapyard is part of the Ferrous Processing & Trading Co., a local scrap processor with locations around the country.

What we don’t know:

The cause of the fire is unknown. 

The Detroit Fire Department also said it could take hours to stamp out the blaze, but that was a rough estimate.

Dig deeper:

An acting chief with DFD told FOX 2 it could take four to five hours to get rid of the fire.

According to Adolf Lane, they had to swap out vehicles and dealt with technical difficulties before making progress on the fire.

“It’s a very tall pile of debris and it’s very much embedded,” he said.

MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police are seeking assistance in locating a critically missing 11-year-old boy.

Police said Kaiden Hudson was last seen near 27th and Burleigh, walking away from a gas station with two other people shortly before midnight on Tuesday, May 13.

Watch: Milwaukee police seek help in locating critically missing 11-year-old boy

Milwaukee police searching for critically missing 11-year-old

He was last observed wearing a light green jacket, a tan shirt, green army-style pants, and black Nike sandals.

Anyone with information is urged to contact District 5 at 414-935-7252.

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