Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

For 30 years, Derman Kenneth Thomas clocked in at a Georgia zipper plant. Clean record. Wife. Grown kid. Then one night in Ocala, Florida - bored in a motel off the interstate - he opened a hookup app. The girl said she was 14. She told him five times. He didn't log off. He asked where her parents were. Chris takes you inside the Marion County sting that put the 55-year-old face-down at midnight, surrounded by tasers and drawn guns just two hours after his first text. The chat logs. The "proof of life" photos. The phone call where Thomas said exactly what he wanted. The Motel 6 pickup plan. Then the interrogation, where Thomas reaches for every
excuse in the playbook and keeps landing on one word: he "entertained" it. As if getting caught erases the intent. He turned down a plea deal, gambled on a jury, and lost: guilty on all counts. Ten years in Florida state prison. Plus: a record 58 arrests in six days, how hookup apps turned kids into a "shopping market.”

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On this special episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen Chris brings you the Roblox session from CrimeCon Las Vegas. There, Hansen was joined by victim turned online safety advocate, Schlep; Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and sexual assault attorney Martin Gould to educate attendees of the dangers lurking on the gaming platform Roblox.

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He bought two Happy Meals. He wasn't meeting an adult. 62-year-old John Coughlin walked up a quiet driveway in Iron Mountain, Michigan carrying kids' meals and a jar of marijuana for what he believed was a 14-year-old girl. What he found instead was Chris and the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office. In this episode, Chris takes you inside his sting operation in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that netted seven predators, and Coughlin's case is the one that rattled him. A laundromat manager and one-time country club cook, Coughlin sent explicit videos to the decoy, asked if she was "420 friendly," and showed up ready. And here's the chilling part: he'd ALREADY been caught once. A live warrant from a Shelby Township sting was sitting in the system while he trolled other underage girls' photos online. His excuse? "Bored and lonely." His admission? "I knew better than this." He did. He came anyway.

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Two Happy Meals and a Jar of Weed: The 62-Year-Old
Who Knew Better

He bought two Happy Meals. He wasn't meeting
an adult. 62-year-old John Coughlin walked up a quiet driveway in Iron
Mountain, Michigan carrying kids' meals and a jar of marijuana for what he
believed was a 14-year-old girl. What he found instead was Chris and the
Dickinson County Sheriff's Office. In this
episode, Chris takes you inside his sting operation in Michigan's Upper
Peninsula that netted seven predators, and Coughlin's case is the one that
rattled him. A laundromat manager and one-time country club cook, Coughlin sent
explicit videos to the decoy, asked if she was "420 friendly," and
showed up ready. And here's the chilling part: he'd ALREADY been caught once. A
live warrant from a Shelby Township sting was sitting in the system while he
trolled other underage girls' photos online.
His excuse? "Bored and lonely." His admission? "I knew
better than this." He did. He came anyway.

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On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd to discuss a recent arrest that will shock you! It involves a Wal-Mart, a man with a lengthy criminal history of sexual deviancy and his brother, who is known for playing the local Santa Claus. You're not going to believe what you hear!

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He took an oath to do no harm. Then he drove to a house where he believed a 15-year-old girl was waiting alone. Dr. Mansoor Ahmed spent his days as a trusted nephrologist in New Orleans. But when Chris's team set up a sting in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, a very different man walked through the door. The chat logs were explicit. The intent was unmistakable. And when confronted, Ahmed reached for an excuse Chris had never heard in decades of these investigations: he claimed a child had bullied him into coming. In this episode, Hansen walks through the decoy conversations line by line, exposing how Ahmed leveraged his medical credentials to groom his target — and dismantles every deflection the doctor throws at him. "You're sorry because you got caught," Chris tells him. The story doesn't end at the confrontation: after his arrest, Ahmed self-deported to Pakistan, raising hard questions about accountability,
prosecution, and whether a predator with a passport ever really faces justice.

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