Regal Reptiles, Shawn Fay arrested

http://www2.turnto10.com/news/2010/a...-ri-ar-197815/

Federal, state and local law enforcement authorities arrested 18 people across Rhode Island Wednesday in a child pornography sweep.

Seventeen of the suspects were arraigned on charges of possession of child pornography. One faces a drug charge.

Investigators said they expect to make more arrests.

Investigators said one of the defendants was a city worker, one was a former Navy man and others were business owners. Two of the suspects were juveniles.

One of the defendants was Shawn Fay, was a Little League coach and was a co-owner of Regal Reptiles in Providence. Police searched his North Scituate home, found a number of exotic animals and condemned the home.

"There were two pythons, two ferrets, an alligator, scorpians and consistent with that many animals in such a small proximity. There was a lot of be concerned with regarding feces and filth in general," said Chief David Ranfall.

Ten teams totaling more than 100 agents fanned out across the state in "Operation Safe Child" with search warrants for 20 residences.

Investigators said the homes were identified as actively involved in obtaining and sharing images of child pornography on the Internet.

"The images and videos that our task force had to watch to secure and build these cases are disgusting, reprehensible and can only be valued by a corrupted mind," state police Col. Brendan Doherty said.

State Attorney General Patrick Lynch said state police used software called Operation Fairplay to search peer-to-peer networks and indentify users who were exchanging high volumes of pornographic images.

Arrested and charged with possession of child pornography were:

Michael Wallace, 24, of Pascoag

Alan Alarcon, 18, of Providence

Shawn Fay, 39, of North Scituate, a co-owner of Regal Reptiles in Providence and a Little League coach

Robert MacGregor, 48, of Pawtucket

Girard Proux, 43, of Pawtucket

George Dubuque III, 21, of Wakefield

Jeffrey Earl, 22, of Wakefield

Miguel Escobedo, 38, of Providence

Paul Hutchinson, 27, of Barrington

Joshua Page, 18, of Jamestown

Kyle Bannister, 19, of Richmond

Michael Woodard, 19, of North Kingstown

Jason Bidondi, 35, of Central Falls

Jason Demelo, 33, of Warwick

Cory Bergeron, 19, of Coventry

Juvenile, 17, of Pascoag

Juvenile, 17, of West Warwick

The fact that he was a Little League coach is terrifying.

This was subject was addressed in the (most recently posted to) Regal Reptiles thread on the BOI. I'm not trying to squash it; but I don't really think it should be spread across multiple sections of this site, either....so I moved this to the Herps in the News forum.

sorry Harold. I looked for it elsewhere before posting and missed it somehow.
Had I known it was already on here I would not have posted.

Originally Posted by MiIguanaLvr

sorry Harold. I looked for it elsewhere before posting and missed it somehow.
Had I known it was already on here I would not have posted.

I am sure that many of us are glad that you did. The other posts did not have the list of names of those involved.

Thanks!

I hope when they drop that trash in the joint they put him in gen pop...

Originally Posted by deborahbroadus

The fact that he was a Little League coach is terrifying.

Childrens birthday parties

http://www.regalreptiles.net/birthday-parties/

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I would just like to pop in to say that while this is incredibly reprehensible and indefensible behavior, he and the rest of the parties involved are innocent until proven guilty.

Also, I'm not clear what having ferrets or reptiles in his apartment has to do with the case, or why its mentioned.

If they are found guilty, I do hope they go away for a long time.

well now see there was that one drug charge in there, maybe it was him. Not defending him like I know him or anything, but just remaining fair as he coulda been rolling up a j at a friends house who was a kiddie creeper. Wrong place, Wrong time situation. Idk but the whole birthday/kids show thing isnt helping his case.

Originally Posted by rcpreis3

well now see there was that one drug charge in there, maybe it was him. Not defending him like I know him or anything, but just remaining fair as he coulda been rolling up a j at a friends house who was a kiddie creeper. Wrong place, Wrong time situation. Idk but the whole birthday/kids show thing isnt helping his case.

The statements in the news sort of rules out a "wrong place, wrong time, misidentification scene."

Investigators said the homes were identified as actively involved in obtaining and sharing images of child pornography on the Internet.
"The images and videos that our task force had to watch to secure and build these cases are disgusting, reprehensible and can only be valued by a corrupted mind," state police Col. Brendan Doherty said.

State Attorney General Patrick Lynch said state police used software called Operation Fairplay to search peer-to-peer networks and indentify users who were exchanging high volumes of pornographic images.

Arrested and charged with possession of child pornography were:

just saying...but of course everyone will have their day in court.