MIAMI — Daniel O’neill was among the suspects caught during an undercover human trafficking operation involving Miami police officers and Homeland Security Investigations agents, records show.
According to an arrest report that police officers signed on Thursday, O’neill, 27, was fooled into thinking that he had connected with a mother who was prostituting her daughters.
“During the conversation, the investigators identified the minors in the advertisements as being 12 years old and 14 years old,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.
O’neill, a Lake Worth resident born in Europe, “chose” the 14-year-old girl after he allegedly responded to an online ad on Wednesday by using his Palm Beach County area code phone number, according to the police report.
O’neill met with an undercover officer posing as the victim’s mother at a hotel in Miami’s Flagami neighborhood and used CashApp to pay $100 for 15 minutes of oral sex with the teen, according to police.
Records show police officers arrested Oneill at about 9 p.m., on Wednesday, in a hotel room, and the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office human trafficking task force had the case.
According to a Linkedin account with O’neill’s identity, the associate personal banker based out of Boynton Beach “likes to spend time his free time with his family and volunteer in charitable events for the community.”
A Facebook account with O’neill’s identity listed him as a former student at Florida Atlantic University, Palm Beach State College, and John I. Leonard High School in Palm Beach County.
In Miami-Dade County, O’neill faced charges of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of a minor, a first-degree felony; certain uses of computer services or devices prohibited, a second-degree felony; and traveling to meet a minor, a second-degree felony.
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