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- Glenn Raymond Breeden, a registered sex offender from Orlando, received a 10-year prison sentence on Monday.
- He pleaded guilty to attempting to lure a undercover officer, who he believed to be a 7-year-old boy, to a Salt Lake hotel for sex.
- The case involved an undercover operation by the FBI and West Valley Police.
SALT LAKE CITY — A 56-year-old Orlando man was sentenced to prison for attempting to lure whom he believed was a 7-year-old boy to his hotel room in January 2024.
Glenn Raymond Breeden was initially charged in Utah District Court with one count of attempted coercion and enticement and one count of violation by a registered sex offender, and he pleaded guilty to the first charge last June.
As part of that plea agreement, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release by Judge Howard Nielson, Jr. Breeden is a registered sex offender in Florida following a 2002 federal conviction for possession of child pornography.
According to assistant U.S. attorney Joey Blanch, Breeden posted on an unspecified social media platform "neg daddy looking for yng pox boys," meaning the man is "HIV negative looking to have sex with young, HIV positive boys," a detention filing says.
An undercover officer responded to the post, asking, "How yng we talkin?" according to the filing. Breeden responded, saying he had no limits, and when the undercover officer asked, "No limits huh?" court documents say Breeden messaged back, "Definitely haven't found them yet. Lol."
The Orlando man planned to meet with the undercover officer when he was on a work trip in Salt Lake City, according to plea statements, believing the undercover officer making the posts had a 7-year-old boy Breeden could sexually abuse.
"(Breeden) clearly indicated he understood that what he planned to do to the child was illegal," Blanch wrote in the detention motion. "He said he was worried that he was the out-of-towner and there seemed to be a lot of law enforcement on social media here."
Despite already having a federal conviction for child pornography, Breeden told the undercover officer he streams child sexual abuse material on his phone. I "watch on here without getting in on my device," the man messaged the undercover officer, court documents show. "Even with that precaution, I wipe my phone and reinstall apps manually every other day," Breeden said.
On Jan. 10, Breeden flew to Salt Lake City. In his later plea statement, the man said, "While in Utah, I communicated with someone in Utah who I believed to be the father of a 7-year-old boy ... and was interested in meeting in person to molest his son myself."
The officer and Breeden agreed to meet on Jan. 15, court documents show. It was snowing that day, and the undercover officer had asked Breeden if the weather was a problem for the meet-up, according to the detention filing. Breeden was more concerned about the possibility of law enforcement and asked for the officer to send pictures, court documents say.
When the officer refused and asked if that was a deal breaker, Breeden responded "I want to really bad," and they continued to make plans, according to court filings. Due to work, Breeden requested a change in meeting place — his hotel room.
Law enforcement came around the side door of the hotel, where they would be let in by Breeden, according to court documents, but a woman was there, smoking. Breeden, scoping out the door, waited until the coast was clear before opening the door, court documents say.
In his plea statement, Breeden wrote — "when I went to the door of the hotel to let the father and child into the hotel, I was arrested."
Breeden claimed past sexual abuse of minors in messages to the undercover officers, but no public information is available to indicate whether or not there are other known victims of the man. The case was investigated by the West Valley Police Department and the FBI.
