Ocean County, New Jersey (also known as Mantoloking, New Jersey) is the penultimate edition of the Dateline NBC program, To Catch a Predator..
Plot synopsis[]
28 men between the ages of 21 and 60 were arrested over a four day period at an upscale house on the Jersey Shore.
Notes & trivia[]
- This marked the first decoy appearance of Casey Mauro, which included her both doing interviews for Dateline and doing voice work on the chatlogs.
- The trap house that was being filmed in was worth $3.5m and was strictly a rental home as the owner (Casey’s grandmother) never lived there. The house would end up being destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.[1]
- Todd Lewis, a repeat offender, would travel six hours to the trap house. This was the longest trip a predator had taken for a sexual liason.
- A majority of the offenders in the sting avoided jail time, receiving with a period of probation or lifetime probation and sex offender status.
- This was the second time a beach sting was conducted during the series, with Flagler Beach, Florida being the first. This was, however, the first time the potential predators "had a seat" in this setting.