A HIGH-level Israeli cybersecurity official for the Netanyahu government who was arrested in Nevada during an undercover operation targeting child sex predators has managed to escape custody and fly back to Israel.
Curiously the Israeli-born Nevada Attorney General, Sigal Chattah, in a post on X, blamed “a liberal district attorney and state court judge for failing to require an alleged child molester to surrender his passport. She said Federal Attorney Pam Bondi “just called me, outraged”.
Seven others, including a pastor, were arrested in the sting involving the FBI and the Nevada Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce.
Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, was to face felony charges including “Luring a Child with Computer for Sex Act,” according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, which assisted in conducting the operation from nearby Henderson, Nevada.
The other men arrested during the sting are Neal Harrison Creecy, 46, David Wonnacott-Yahnke, 40; Jose Alberto Perez-Torres, 35; Aniket Brajeshkumar Sadani, 23; James Ramon Reddick, 23; Ramon Manuel Parra Valenzuela, 29; and John Charles Duncan, 49.
Local TV focused on Creecy, who was named as a senior pastor of the Carson City Redemption Church, part of the Assemblies of God denomination. Creecy confessed to his church leaders and resigned his position.
What the local media did not report was that David Wonnacott-Yahnke was the treasurer of the LGBTQ non-profit (501C3) organisation called “The Imperial Royal Sovereign Court of the Desert Empire. Oh how cute.
A statement put out by the group that found its way on to X, states that the group’s original purpose was a forum for “campy fun”, whatever that means.
A media release from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on Friday, August 15th, said a multi-agency operation targeted child sex predators and led to the arrest of eight individuals over the last several weeks.
Sometime after the arrests became public, Alexandrovich’s LinkedIn profile was deleted. According to a screenshot posted online, his LinkedIn said he is the executive director of the Israel Cyber Directorate, which is a government agency that operates under the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Alexandrovich was in Las Vegas to attend this year’s Black Hat Briefings, an annual gathering of cybersecurity professionals. He posted a photo of himself at the conference on his LinkedIn before the account was deleted.
Ynet, an Israeli news outlet, confirmed that “an employee of the Israel National Cyber Directorate” was “briefly detained for questioning.” The publication did not name Alexandrovich and omitted the fact that he was arrested.
Netanyahu’s office issued a statement and denied that the employee in question was arrested at all.
“A state employee who traveled to the U.S. for professional matters was questioned by American authorities during his stay,” the prime minister’s office said. “The employee, who does not hold a diplomatic visa, was not arrested and returned to Israel as scheduled.”
