Charges dismissed in alleged campus vigilante ‘Catch a Predator’ sting

The judge rejected charges of abduction and conspiracy filed against five Students on Massachusetts College The accused of receiving a man at their campus in the “catch a predator” scheme using a dating app.

The work court judge in Worcester has dismissed the charges against Kelsey Brainard, Isabella Trudeau, Joaquin Smith, Kevin Carroll and Easton Randall. The decision followed after lawyers for teenage students at the University claimed that prosecutors were missing probable reason and submitted proposals to reject last month.

Data on the status of a sixth student, charged as a minor, are not immediately available.

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“We are grateful that after a fair hearing and a longer consideration, the court properly applied the law,” Brainard said lawyer, Christopher Todd, said, he said In e -mail to Associated Press. “No decisions were made on our way to resolving the remaining number.”

The Worcester State Attorney’s Office rejected Fox News Digital for a comment, citing cases of waiting in the matter.

Prosecutors claimed that the group used a Brainard Tinder account to represent as a 17-year-old woman, luring a 22-year-old active military service at the University in October.

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A few minutes after the man arrived at the Campus Salon, “A group of people came out nowhere and started calling it pedophile,” the report reported by the campus police said. The man told the authorities that students accused him of wanting sex with 17-year-olds because at least 25 people had chased him into his car.

The man said he then hit him in the head and rammed into the car door before he could take him.

Todd claimed in his proposal to reject these surveillance shots showing a group that persecutes a man does not show evidence That anyone tried to prevent him from leaving, adding that Brainard remained inside the salon during the incident, and there was no evidence that the group had planned to keep a man against his will.

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After the attack, Randall told the officials that the group was inspired by “catch the predator” Trend on Tictok and hired students through their native chat, claiming that the “predator” was coming to school, according to Police report.

Tinder’s conversation between the group and the victim shows that his wife tells him he is 17 years old, and the man told her “That’s okay, you’re in college,” according to Todd. After the attack, Brainard contacted the authorities, claiming that the man was a sex predator, for which police found to be false.

The University of Police Directorate “has fulfilled its duty as an accredited agency for law by charging the charges that describe the facts of the incident and elements of the crime under the Law of Massachusetts,” said the university spokesman. “The District State Attorney has accepted and prosecuted these accusations. All charges in the case, including those left in place, are in accordance with the judicial system.”

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The department did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital request for comment.

Carroll is still charged with attack and battery with a dangerous weapon, and Brainard is facing a charge of the intimidation of witnesses.

CARROLL AND BRAINARD lawyers did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.