LAKE COUNTY, Ohio — While videos exposing alleged predators have become popular on the internet, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said those "vigilantes" behind the camera are hindering a potential case rather than helping.

Recently, a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit called 814PredHunters came to Painesville to meet with a 33-year-old man who was allegedly planning to have sex with a 15-year-old girl.

"He's living with his parents, so he didn't want the child to come to the house. He told her he would meet her at an intersection which was only really about 100 yards from his parents' house, and then they were gonna walk to the woods where he hunts at and have sex," 814PredHunters Founder Brian Knepp said.

Knepp and his team took a video of the confrontation on July 30.

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