Las Vegas pastor arrested in child predator sting operation
Over the past two weeks, the Nevada Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, along with the FBI and several southern Nevada police departments, worked together to make these arrests.
Undercover officers and federal agents posed online as children responding to the same messages and meeting requests that real kids in the community might see.
One of the men is 46-year-old Neal Harrison Creecy, a pastor at Redemption Church. Investigators said Creecy allegedly used a computer to try and lure children for sexual misconduct, which is a felony charge.
For the past five years, Creecy has rented space inside The Good Samaritan Lutheran Church on West Sahara and Cimarron, where he operates his religious organization, redemption church.
However, Lutheran Church leaders tell 8 News Now that Creecy has no affiliation with The Good Samaritan Church and that he is a renter. W. Don Seaborg, President of Pastoral Support for Redemption Church, said they were surprised and hurt by the news and said Creecy is no longer serving in his role.
'As soon as he got out of jail within an hour or two, he contacted us on a thread message and confessed. He offered his resignation when we met with him later that morning. We had to accept his resignation immediately,' Seaborg said.
Of the other seven men arrested, authorities said they believed they were meeting a child, but they were actually meeting law enforcement. The undercover operation involved multiple agencies, including the FBI, Homeland Security, Metro Police, Henderson police, and North Las Vegas Police.
Neal Creecy is currently out on a $10,000 dollar bail. His first court appearance is Sept. 2 at Henderson Justice Court at 9:00 a.m.
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