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The Tampa Tribune
By ELAINE SILVESTRINI | The Tampa Tribune
Published: July 24, 2012
TAMPA —
A puppeteer who has entertained children for years across the Tampa area had a sickening secret, according to a federal complaint.
Ron Brown collected pornographic images of children and fantasized about strangling, dismembering and cannibalizing children, court documents state. The 57-year-old Largo man is under arrest in the Pinellas County Jail facing federal charges of conspiring to kidnap a child and possession of child pornography.
He was arrested as part of an international investigation conducted by federal Homeland Security agents based in Boston. …
He told agents, according to the complaint, that every Wednesday several children from his neighborhood come to his house for pizza before he gives them a ride to church in a van provided by the church.
But he told investigators he talked to someone online about killing, dismembering and eating a particular boy at his church, the complaint states. He said he told the person, “If I was going to eat someone, I would probably eat” the boy.
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