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Escambia Man Charged With Traveling To Meet A Minor At Nine Mile Restaurant
May 11, 2026
A 62-year-old man was arrested after allegedly traveling to a local Waffle Huse to meet a child for illegal sexual activity.
Billy Ray Rogers was arrested by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office last Wednesday at the Waffle House on East Nine Mile Road at 7 East Nine Mile Road, near North Palafox Street. He faces a felony charge of traveling to meet after using a computer to lure a child. He was released from the Escambia County Jail on a $15,000 bond.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office responded to a reported disturbance at the Waffle House. An arriving deputy was met by a man who said he works for Predator Poachers, a Texas company that goes undercover to catch sexual predators. The company is not affiliated with local law enforcement.
Another Predator Poachers employee told deputies that he had been working undercover as a 13-year-old girl named “Miley.” The sheriff’s office said he provided printed copies of messages between the Miley persona and Rogers from TikTok and Telegram in which Rogers invited Miley over to his house. The company enlisted a Waffle House customer to message and call Rogers to see if he was coming to pick her up at the Waffle House, an arrest report states.
The Waffle House customer told deputies that Rogers said he did not want to be arrested because he is a 60-year-old man and she was just 13 years old. She then explained to Rogers that she walked from a friend’s house and it was dark, asking him to pick her up, and he pulled up to the restaurant door, according to the arrest report.
According to the ECSO report, Rogers spontaneously told a deputy “that he has child porn on his black phone and a computer” and he sent nude photos of himself to an underage female and wanted the girls to come to his place. The phone was seized and submitted into evidence. Child pornography charges were not immediately filed, pending the outcome of the investigation.
The ECSO report states that Rogers admitted “that he knew what he did was wrong,” that he knew Miley was 13 years old, and that he sent her a sexually explicit photo of himself.
Deputies reported that the alleged messages sent by Rogers to the 13-year-old decoy were explicit details of what he intended to do.
Rogers was interviewed by the ECSO Special Victims Unit (SVU) prior to being booked into the Escambia County Jail.
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9 Responses to “Escambia Man Charged With Traveling To Meet A Minor At Nine Mile Restaurant”
Mnon – what you call vigilantism, I call concerned citizens helping the police. They didn’t take punishment into their own hands. They didn’t entrap this guy. They let him take the bait, documented his actions, and when he travelled to meet his victim, they held him for the police and turned over their evidence. Nothing wrong with this.
this freaks entire family-the girls friends and parents should be at the interviews and hear and let the girls see the FREAK and what he would do so it scares the HELL out of them
Bad feeling about this one. Ok, so he is a freak, a pedophile. Would he have acted in this manner if not encouraged? Had he been doing what he could to stay straight? Did he initiate contact of the fake 13yo? Lot of questions here. Vigilante groups quite often get things wrong but oh so well intentioned.
Great job by law enforcement and these predators should never be free again.
It is absolutely horrible that Pensacola has so many sex offenders. But I guess that’s because our Law Enforcement keeps catching them! I wish they’d use Alligator Alcatraz to house them though.
Orange would be a better color than green for the rest of his life.
How is this not vigilantism? Predator Poachers is doing this for the clicks to make cash. Setting up someone then luring them to a location to be “caught” could go bad for them or innocent people at said location. If you can’t set up your own drug deals to bust dealers, holding them until the cops show up this should be illegal too. Of course I hate pedophiles but this should be a law enforcement operation, not some vigilante group. Just for clarification:
Vigilantism is the unauthorized, extralegal prevention, investigation, or punishment of perceived offenses by individuals or groups acting without legal authority.
I saw the video 2 days ago of this monster being arrested. Kudos to the Predator Poachers and ECSO
Tall tree, short rope.