Law Chris Hansen Arrested and Charged

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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 said:
An otherwise happy ending. The one time network television did actual good in the world and they shut it down :(
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I think he killed himself more over them outing him as gay in the buckle of the bible belt where under state law homosex is still an criminal offense

But that said he actually never showed up to take a seat over there and cut off contact with the "young boy" (note he was pretending to be 19 and never sent photos of himself), but Chris Hansen apparently pushed the police so far to go to his house and arrest him so he could get his big fish, that he, not the police who had original juridicton, contacted the prosecutor with jurisdiction where he lived to ask him to help him with the raid, to which the Prosecutor with jurisdiction immedately objected to it and sent out a notice to law enforcement in the county not to take part in it, and despite that, Chris Hansen actually camped out infront of his house 5 hours before an arrest warrant was even signed, even posting a camera directly next to his front door breaking state law, and members of Hansen's team actually directed the police and called in a SWAT team to make a big show out of it.

And for all of that and the guy blowing his brains out, the exact law, as applied in this case, was later declared unconstitutional by the Texas Supreme Court in 2015 on the basis that if there's no actual meeting there's no crime committed, especially if there's no real minor involved.

Which is good in a way as the show was set up around a loophole in entrapment laws anyway as Perverted Justice, who are private citizens, could entrap people by having "14 year olds" say they're horny and they want dick while using lewd pics of actual 18 year olds who simply looked young (this was the days before camera phones and video chatting) and then set them up to get arrested because entrapment laws only apply to the actions of actual government agents.

Also oddly, the SINGLE AND ONLY TIME they caught a jew on the show, they had to put an on screen disclaimer that his charges were dropped due to lack of evidence, whereas they usually put up the sentences of everyone they showed getting caught because 99% of people caught instantly plead out.
 
On this episode of "To Catch a Cheapass".
 
Is it weird that I got nostalgic for TCAP and re-watched all the old investigations last week?

The best part is always Chris reading the transcript back to the guys, and you can kind of tell that Hansen enjoyed doing it. It had to feel like opening up a gift on Christmas day when he did.
 
So Chris opened up a new YouTube channel yesterday.


What's weird (apart from the potato quality of the video above) is that everything he's uploading seems to be videos captured/obtained by the autists in the TCaP community over the years. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few TCaP videos in my time. On top of that, I highly doubt he has permission from NBC to post this stuff. A lot of it has been pulled off YouTube by NBC copyright claims too many times to count.

He claims he's going to be uploading "new investigations" to the channel, but it looks fishy as hell to me.
 
ForgedBlades said:
So Chris opened up a new YouTube channel yesterday.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vpn6zcDVEAM
What's weird (apart from the potato quality of the video above) is that everything he's uploading seems to be videos captured/obtained by the autists in the TCaP community over the years. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few TCaP videos in my time. On top of that, I highly doubt he has permission from NBC to post this stuff. A lot of it has been pulled off YouTube by NBC copyright claims too many times to count.

He claims he's going to be uploading "new investigations" to the channel, but it looks fishy as hell to me.
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I didn't believe this was real at first so I checked his Twitter and it actually is. That channel looks like something thrown together during a fugitive's final meth bender while a SWAT team surrounds the building. Every TCAP mirror account I've seen over the past decade has been better organised.

I want to say he's just a boomer and doesn't know how to Youtube, but there's something alarmingly desperate about the fact that he's slapping together at random not just TCAP but anything and everything to do with his career (other NBC shows, interviews with him, etc.).

Some of this stuff does seem to be new, though. While I'm sure a good chunk of it was already floating around, there's hours worth of raw interrogation/interview footage here I've never heard of.
 
This account is definitely a proverbial Custer's Last Stand. Dude is trying to milk every drop of whatever popularity he has left. He's promising to finally drop the Vincent Ambrosio interview from HvP, something he refused to do for years after the kid threatened suicide.
 
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