{"id":1559344,"date":"2022-07-18T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1559344"},"modified":"2022-07-18T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:35:35","slug":"maryland-senate-candidate-arrested-for-allegedly-lying-in-child-sex-trafficking-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-senate-candidate-arrested-for-allegedly-lying-in-child-sex-trafficking-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Senate Candidate Arrested For Allegedly Lying In Child Sex Trafficking Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaryland-senate-candidate-arrested-for-allegedly-lying-in-child-sex-trafficking-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1559344&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Maryland was arrested and charged for allegedly filing a false report to police about child sex trafficking in an adult bookstore, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Dark White, who <a href=\"https:\/\/mcgreeveyforsenate.org\/\">goes by<\/a> Dr. Jon McGreevey, was arrested Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/harfordsheriff.org\/news\/releases\/senate-candidate-arrested-charged-with-false-report\/\">according<\/a> to the Harford County Sheriff\u2019s Office. White told police in April he had knowledge about the supposed illegal acts taking place in an adult bookstore in Edgewood, Maryland, but an investigation found his allegation was false.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/11\/us-marshals-rescue-sixteen-missing-children-sex-trafficking-kidnapping\/\"><strong>(RELATED: US Marshals Say They Rescued 16 Missing Children, Some In Suspected Sex Trafficking Ring)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u201dIt is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda,\u201d Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler said in a statement. \u201cFearmongering and antagonism caused wasted time and energy by our personnel, whose time would have been better served protecting the citizens of Harford County, instead of investigating lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7476731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7476731\" class=\"wp-image-7476731 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-52245874-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-52245874-scaled-1.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-52245874-202x120.jpeg 202w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-52245874-620x368-1.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-52245874-768x456-1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-52245874-1536x911-1.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-52245874-2048x1215-1.jpeg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7476731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PARK CITY, KS \u2013 FEBRUARY 26: Police tape hangs across the street in front of the house that Dennis Rader lives in February 26, 2005 in Park City, Kansas. Rader is the suspect whom police have arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder in connection with the 10 deaths now tied to the serial killer known as BTK. (Photo by Larry W. Smith\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>White, who is running in a <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/United_States_Senate_election_in_Maryland,_2022_(July_19_Republican_primary)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crowded<\/a> Republican primary field, was interviewed by detectives on July 7, according to police. Investigators concluded after the interview that the candidate\u2019s child sex trafficking allegation was false, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives investigated White\u2019s claim and interviewed the young girl \u2014 who is between 10 and 12 \u2014 as well as the adult male alleged to have engaged in inappropriate behavior, police said. The candidate claimed to police he was an employee at the adult bookstore in his report, <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/news\/local\/maryland-senate-candidate-charged-for-false-claims-of-child-sex-child-sex-trafficking\">according<\/a> to the local outlet WBFF<\/p>\n<p>The candidate was taken to the Harford County Detention Center, according to police, and will appear before a district court commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>White\u2019s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Harford County Sheriff\u2019s Office declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It is shameful&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}