Law Chris Hansen Arrested and Charged

Hopefully this menace will be put away for good!

“To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen has been charged with issuing bad checks and failing to pay thousands of dollars to a vendor for marketing materials.

Hansen, 59, of Shippan, Connecticut, turned himself in to police over the bounced checks on Monday and was charged with "issuing a bad check," Stamford Police told Fox News. He was released without bond and signed a PTA or a promise to appear in court, police said.

Hansen reportedly asked Peter Psichopaidas, the owner of Promotional Sales LTD, for mugs, decals and T-shirts for marketing events in 2017, the Stamford Advocate reported, citing an arrest affidavit. The goods totaled $12,998.05 and the former MSNBC host agreed to pay for the items in full before they were delivered. An employee who worked for Hansen sent a check for the items three months after they received invoices for the materials. When the check bounced, Hansen apparently apologized to Psichopaidas and said he would make a partial payment.

The business owner filed a police complaint in April 2017, after he did not receive any payment.

Investigator Sean Coughlin contacted Hansen, who said he would make a statement at the Stamford police station — but he never went. He also said his wife would deliver a check but she never did, the arrest affidavit stated, according to the Stamford Advocate.

Psichopaidas said he received a check from Hansen for $13,200 in April 2018 but it bounced, the arrest affidavit stated. Hansen wrote in an email to Psichopaidas regarding the bounced check that he “sold a boat” to cover the payment.

“Peter ... I truly thought I had this covered,” the “To Catch a Predator host, according to the affidavit. “I am scrambling to get it done. Please give me till the end of the day. I sold a boat to cover the rest of this and need to pick up the payment this afternoon.”

However, Hansen allegedly did not write another check. Police said Hansen wouldn't speak to officers before an arrest warrant was issued.

Hansen came to notoriety after hosting the MSNBC reality show “To Catch a Predator,” in which he exposed predators who believed they were speaking to underage children.

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[Keystone]

Yeah I remember that too, a piece of shit coward district attorney named Louis Conradt was caught in a sting involving Dateline/TCaP and he killed himself when the police came to arrest him instead of owning up to pedophilia.

An otherwise happy ending. The one time network television did actual good in the world and they shut it down

 

[BradyBunchFan]

Oh no! Grandpa, Dad! no...not Dad..
Who knew his fall from grace would be so boring.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Yeah, gotta love the fact that the moment they caught a government official being a fucking creep, the plug was pulled.

Sorry, we're only looking for unimportant pedophiles who are functionally retarded, not dangerous predators.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Is it sad that I'm not surprised that this happened?

Now I loved TCaP back in the day. It was my ultimate guilty pleasure show as I watched dumbasses and creeps destroy their lives. And yes, it delivered some fantastic meming and online parody, even back over a decade ago.

But, part of me also felt like Chris Hansen liked the fame that came along with being part of the investigations, and got swept up in the sensationalism of it. I mean you can kind of tell that the first couple of investigations were trying to be about doing a public service and later ones evolved into just presenting a spectacular shit show. But TCaP got so big so fast that nobody wanted to see him do anything else. He basically went from news reporter to one hit wonder celebrity without even realizing it.

I did watch some of the Hansen Vs. Predator clips, and what stuck out to me was how fat and old Hansen looked. Time has not been kind to him.

And as with a lot of one hit wonders, once the cow gets milked for all its worth, bad things start to happen.

 

[GS 281]

Yeah, gotta love the fact that the moment they caught a government official being a fucking creep, the plug was pulled.

Sorry, we're only looking for unimportant pedophiles who are functionally exceptional, not dangerous predators.

I think it was more that the guy shot himself when the police and camera crew were at his door and NBC got heat for that for some reason.

Either way, I liked TCAP, it was funny seeing Hansen's approach to pedos. I've seen other videos on the net where other people have tried confronting pedos, theres some kid in Grand Rapids who was doing it, I believe he went by AnxietyWar, some group in the UK, some Canadian guy in Toronto and the busters come off horribly in the videos. Hansen did a lot of talking-down to these weirdos but overall, he got them to talk and it was fun and somewhat interesting when you didn't get a bunch of "i dunno"s. The ones where its like "youre a pedo, fuck you pedo" are lame as hell because its just faggots punching down at literally the worst people. They just seem like they aren't much better than the pedo themselves.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

The big problem with TCAP was that... well none of the people were actually caught being predators. They were talking to a person lying about their age. It's easy to say "I knew she was lying about her age and was over 18, and my proof is that she is over 18."

Also the people running the catfishing part of it seemed sketchy as all fucking hell.

I don't get when they catch an actual predator in a position of power, and he kills himself, this is considered a bad thing. It would have been better if that sick fuck got to keep victimizing people and making laws?

 

[An Ghost]

Tcap drinking game: every time one of the predators has their own kid in the car, drink. Every time they say they called out of work, drink. Crossed state lines/drove hours, drink.

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The big problem with TCAP was that... well none of the people were actually caught being predators. They were talking to a person lying about their age. It's easy to say "I knew she was lying about her age and was over 18, and my proof is that she is over 18."

That’s like saying getting busted buying drugs from an undercover cop shouldn’t be a crime because there were no drugs. Or hiring a hit man that turns out to be a government agent who just arrests you. Or “attempted murder” isn’t really murder so what’s the big deal.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Tcap drinking game: every time one of the predators has their own kid in the car, drink. Every time they say they called out of work, drink. Crossed state lines/drove hours, drink.

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That’s like saying getting busted buying drugs from an undercover cop shouldn’t be a crime because there were no drugs. Or hiring a hit man that turns out to be a government agent who just arrests you. Or “attempted murder” isn’t really murder so what’s the big deal.

I thought the legal defense that unraveled the whole TCAP setup was "my client was playing along with the decoy to meet Chris Hansen and be on TV" - if you can demonstrate there's a reasonable doubt that the person wasn't actually trying to commit a crime that it's harder to prove.

Obviously all of those guys wanted to fuck kids and being shown on TV trying to do so is its own special punishment but its sad they got out of jail time in some cases.

 

[Donald Trump's Neck Vag]

Free the political prisoner known as Christopher Edward Hansen, unjustly imprisoned by the pedo elites for his tireless pursuit of justice.

 

[Cosmos]

I think it was more that the guy shot himself when the police and camera crew were at his door and NBC got heat for that for some reason.

Either way, I liked TCAP, it was funny seeing Hansen's approach to pedos. I've seen other videos on the net where other people have tried confronting pedos, theres some kid in Grand Rapids who was doing it, I believe he went by AnxietyWar, some group in the UK, some Canadian guy in Toronto and the busters come off horribly in the videos. Hansen did a lot of talking-down to these weirdos but overall, he got them to talk and it was fun and somewhat interesting when you didn't get a bunch of "i dunno"s. The ones where its like "youre a pedo, fuck you pedo" are lame as hell because its just faggots punching down at literally the worst people. They just seem like they aren't much better than the pedo themselves.

Hansen’s approach was the best because he used the pedo’s own actions and words to describe incriminate and bury them. You don’t need to scream “fuck you pedo” when you have chatlogs of a grown man asking a (supposed) 13-year-old girl to suck his dick. It just speaks for itself.

 

[An Ghost]

I thought the legal defense that unraveled the whole TCAP setup was "my client was playing along with the decoy to meet Chris Hansen and be on TV" - if you can demonstrate there's a reasonable doubt that the person wasn't actually trying to commit a crime that it's harder to prove.

Obviously all of those guys wanted to fuck kids and being shown on TV trying to do so is its own special punishment but its sad they got out of jail time in some cases.

That happened on the TV show the boondocks so the “booty warrior” could rape Chris Hansen sure.

The legal defense that unraveled TCAP was when a guy shot himself.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Tcap drinking game: every time one of the predators has their own kid in the car, drink. Every time they say they called out of work, drink. Crossed state lines/drove hours, drink.

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That’s like saying getting busted buying drugs from an undercover cop shouldn’t be a crime because there were no drugs. Or hiring a hit man that turns out to be a government agent who just arrests you. Or “attempted murder” isn’t really murder so what’s the big deal.

Well, in that case, you've still illegally purchased drugs. It's not legal to purchase drugs from anyone. A better analogy would be a cop selling you a pixie stick and saying it's cocaine, then charging you with purchasing cocaine.

It's not legal to have sex with a minor or try to do so. The thing is, there weren't any minors. I'm not saying those dudes weren't pervs, just that legally the charges could never stick because there were never any minors.

 

[An Ghost]

Well, in that case, you've still illegally purchased drugs. It's not legal to purchase drugs from anyone. A better analogy would be a cop selling you a pixie stick and saying it's cocaine, then charging you with purchasing cocaine.

It's not legal to have sex with a minor or try to do so. The thing is, there weren't any minors. I'm not saying those dudes weren't pervs, just that legally the charges could never stick because there were never any minors.

It’s about intent. As soon as you say to an undercover cop/prostitute “I am willing to exchange money for sex with you right now” that’s proof enough. You don’t get to fuck the cop before you go to jail.

While I agree with you that we should endanger children to bust perverts (age should not be a protected class, school shootings aren’t worse than regular mass shootings) I’m wondering what you think it was that allowed local police to arrest the perverts involved in the sting. There were groups even before TCAP doing this sort of sting stuff. They just televised it.

 

[Don Herbert]

You don’t get to fuck the cop before you go to jail.

So they take his money, don't provide the service promised and lock him in a box, and the John is the criminal?

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

It’s about intent. As soon as you say to an undercover cop/prostitute “I am willing to exchange money for sex with you right now” that’s proof enough. You don’t get to fuck the cop before you go to jail.

While I agree with you that we should endanger children to bust perverts (age should not be a protected class, school shootings aren’t worse than regular mass shootings) I’m wondering what you think it was that allowed local police to arrest the perverts involved in the sting. There were groups even before TCAP doing this sort of sting stuff. They just televised it.

I'm not commenting on how things should work, just my understanding of how they do work. Actually reading a little further apparently their success rate was better than I thought. But here's an example of what I was talking about:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...aedophile-To-Catch-A-Predator-entrapment.html

The dude was able to argue he knew the woman posing as a child wasn't a child. Since she wasn't a child, it was rather difficult to prove he was lying.

How were they able to arrest? Like this: "You're under arrest". You're aware the handcuffs still work even if there's no chance in hell of a conviction, don't you?

Thanks for implying I want to put kids at risk of being raped. That's the sort of good faith argument that makes this such a great place to discuss stuff.

But I totally agree with you that you should be able to beat women and rape children freely.

 

[GS 281]

Also the people running the catfishing part of it seemed sketchy as all fucking hell.

They were. The guy who was like at the head, Phil Eide or Xavier von Erck, whatever you wanna call him, he was a pretty big lolcow and if TCAP was a thing at the time of KF he woulda had a thread. Here is an example of him being a faggot.

 

[An Ghost]

I'm not commenting on how things should work, just my understanding of how they do work. Actually reading a little further apparently their success rate was better than I thought. But here's an example of what I was talking about:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...aedophile-To-Catch-A-Predator-entrapment.html

The dude was able to argue he knew the woman posing as a child wasn't a child. Since she wasn't a child, it was rather difficult to prove he was lying.

How were they able to arrest? Like this: "You're under arrest". You're aware the handcuffs still work even if there's no chance in hell of a conviction, don't you?

Thanks for implying I want to put kids at risk of being raped. That's the sort of good faith argument that makes this such a great place to discuss stuff.

But I totally agree with you that you should be able to beat women and rape children freely.

Article just says “entrapment” is the reason the case was tossed out. Quality reporting from the daily mail. Like I said, it’s about specific intent which they prosecutor failed to demonstrate. Nothing about “knew it was a woman posing as a child.”

Arrests need a warrant.

Entrapment is a real thing for sting operations to worry about. A hooker cop can’t just ask people on the street “want some drugs” and arrest people who say yes. This seems to be one specific case where they didn’t have enough dirt on a guy.

 

[Count groudon]

I so desperately want him to end up in the same prison as the booty warrior and then they have an epic reunion battle throughout the whole prison, preferably with Hansen wielding a chair as his weapon of choice.

 

[ForgedBlades]

It's kind of funny that Del "I Whacked my Toe on the Banister" Harvey was the only one who came away from the show better off, as she spun her hobby of online catfishing into a cushy job as "Vice President of Trust and Safety" at Twitter, whatever the fuck that is.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Well, in that case, you've still illegally purchased drugs. It's not legal to purchase drugs from anyone. A better analogy would be a cop selling you a pixie stick and saying it's cocaine, then charging you with purchasing cocaine.

It's not legal to have sex with a minor or try to do so. The thing is, there weren't any minors. I'm not saying those dudes weren't pervs, just that legally the charges could never stick because there were never any minors.

Why don't you have a seat over there