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A New York television anchor was caught on video Saturday after allegedly traveling three hours in order to meet a 15-year-old boy whom he had told, “I wanna cuddle.”
Zach Wheeler, the anchor and news director for the NBC affiliate WETM-TV covering Corning, Big Flats, Elkland, Elmira, Savona and Watkins Glen, was confronted at a Dick’s Sporting Goods store after he had agreed to meet with a person he believed to be a 15-year-old boy.
In what they report to be their twenty-third catch, the group called 607 Predator Hunters filmed the entire encounter and posted it unedited to their social media accounts.
After a montage of other such confrontations, the video begins with a narrator stating, “Sunday evening around 5:00 pm, Zach came to meet what he thought was a 15-year-old boy. Shocked upon our team’s arrival, we followed up with some questions to find out exactly what his intentions were.”
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— 607 Predator Hunters (@607PredHunters) May 2, 2022
Offering up a bevy of continually changing excuses for his actions that ranged from believing he was meeting an 18-year-old to actually doing his own report into pedophile activity, Wheeler played the victim throughout the entirety of the encounter.
“Why do you guys do this to gay and lesbian people?” he asked at one point as he was leaving the store. “This is what’s happening in the culture, cancel culture. This is what’s happening,” he later said, after being confronted with the slew of lewd and sexual messages he had exchanged with the member of Predator Hunters who had acted as a minor.
“You said, ‘Look at your beautiful eyes,’ ‘I think we’d hit it off honestly,’ ‘You’re into thick, chubbier guys,’ ‘Any shirtless pics?’…’I wanna cuddle,'” the member of the group rattled off as he scrolled through the chat that Wheeler reportedly engaged in. “Who would say that to a minor if, now you’re trying to say you were here to just help him and drop him off?”
After stating that the act of luring a minor to a sexual encounter was a felony, they clarified some of the comments Wheeler was alleged to have made, “‘How many guys have you had sex with?’ ‘Do you like getting head?’… That was all you I was just reading.”
“I will help you guys find more predators, if you want,” Wheeler stated, as he attempted a number of ways to negotiate his way out of trouble. “I know you think I’m some sick predator, but I’m really not.”
“Do you need money?” he asked suggesting he may have been trying to bribe them into not posting the video or reporting him to the authorities after having claimed. “I wasn’t even going to come here, because I knew it was you guys.”
Since the encounter was posted Sunday, Wheeler’s Facebook and Twitter accounts have been shut down and he is no longer listed on WETM’s website. They posted their own statement on Facebook about the recent video.
“WETM has been made aware of a video posted to YouTube regarding one of our employees,” they wrote. “The local group that posted the video claims that the employee engaged in inappropriate behavior. WETM management is looking into the questions raised by the video, and the employee will remain off the air until the situation is resolved. No charges have been filed in connection with the video.”
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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19 thoughts on “Local TV anchor on leave after being busted on video allegedly trying to hook up with underage boy”
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Don Lemon is next.
These guys all sound the same, if any of you recall to catch a predator they all said the same kind of thing. I knew it was you guys, I wasn’t really going to do anything, etc. Such creepy gross stuff. And what does cancel culture have to do with what he got caught doing?
As a teen living downtown I was hit up all the time. These are nasty nasty people as I have witnessed 1st hand. They prey on innocents
Yes they do. Seen many doing this on various TV shows. It is sick. A previous Seattle Mayor went as far as becoming a foster parent and only taking in boys, since you know he was a single guy it would be bad to take in girls. I don’t know if he actually said that but what a dope the state in OR was on him. He had to resign when more men came forward. The main guy was waiting for his dad to pass before he went public he knew his dad would not take it well, I assume because whatever the dad did it got him in foster care. I also assume by that point the guy loved his dad and didn’t want him to feel like it was his fault. Anyway then some other guys came forward. And the stupid mayor had to practically be forced to resign. He wanted to run for another term since he said it wasn’t true those boys liked it don’t you know.🙄
I’m gonna make a WAG and say that Zach Wheeler will be paid for his off the air time, and that his benefits will be in force.
Taking Jen Psockey’s job
He works for a liberal new rag.
He’s a liberal.
Pedophilia is rampant within the dem party. They’re all deviants.
This is what they want for your kids.
They want everyone to be gay and they want everyone to pretend to be the opposite sex of what they were born.
Dems need to be dealt with aggressively!
That is why they are fighting so hard to groom them young.
Zach is just a couple of years too early. If he waited for just a couple more years the Democrats will make pedophilia legal and he wouldn’t get in trouble. It’s the logical next step after allowing boys in, what once were, women’s rest and locker rooms.
It is not pedophilia it is minor attraction. Puke those people need to be left in a cell with a buba who’s bitch was released. Then see how they like being the victim.
The perv just got the news he’s a perv. He actually thinks he’s the victim.
Because the left are now telling them they are minor attracted persons who are born that way. Next month they will be campaigning to let Gary Ridgeway out because he was born a murder attracted person.
GTFO Nigerian scammer
hit the red flag report as spam
Sick pedo perv.
Is t that Hillary in drag?
Just on leave. He should be fired and arrested. I’m simply stunned by the pedophelia and grooming in the world. Celebs, politicians, world leaders et al.
Expressions inspired by demons.
Any guesses as to what his political affiliation is? Dirt bag queer! Throw his big butt in jail and he get all the head he wants!
Nadler?