Adam Snyder
Introduction
Adam Snyder is a 24-year-old from ChampionsGate, Florida, who told detectives he works at Disney World in Toy Story Land and who was arrested on child-sex charges on October 30, 2026. Per the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, he sent messages to an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old boy and then drove to a location to meet him. He was one of 281 people arrested in “Polk Around and Find Out II,” the biggest sting the county has ever run, announced by Sheriff Grady Judd.
Background Information
Snyder worked at the Roundup Rodeo restaurant in Disney World’s Toy Story Land, according to the New York Post; the sheriff’s office said he himself told detectives he works in Toy Story Land. When detectives searched his vehicle after the arrest, they reported finding part of his Disney uniform and his Disney badge inside — items that tied the allegations directly to his job at the resort.
His arrest was part of a seven-day effort that Judd presented on Friday, October 30, 2026 as the largest sting operation in Polk County’s history: 281 arrests in all, combining child-predator stings in which detectives posed online as minors or their guardians with a large prostitution investigation. Per the Post, undercover officers made 117 prostitution-solicitation arrests and another 122 people were arrested for committing prostitution, while 11 people suspected of being trafficking victims were rescued during the week. WKMG reported that 17 of the suspects told detectives they work at local theme parks or resorts, seven of them among the child-predator arrests.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Charged, not convicted. Snyder was arrested in the sting and charged with felonies including traveling to meet a minor and attempted lewd/lascivious battery on a minor. The allegations below are drawn from Polk County Sheriff’s Office statements; nothing has been adjudicated, and he is presumed innocent.
According to the sheriff’s office, Snyder sent social media messages to an undercover detective who was posing as a 14-year-old boy. Deputies said he told the detective he wanted to “make out and cuddle and oral,” quoted verbatim from the roster’s account of the exchange.
The sheriff’s office said Snyder then drove to the undercover location, where he was taken into custody without incident. The arrest’s proximity to his workplace became the story’s defining image: the Post wrote that he “did not even change out of his uniform when he was caught trying to have sex with a little boy,” citing police.
He was charged with traveling to meet a minor, use of computer to seduce a child, use of two-way communication device to commit a felony, and attempted lewd/lascivious battery on a minor.
Public Reaction and Consequences
At the press conference, Judd played footage for reporters showing an ice-cream truck passing as Snyder was being arrested, and called the timing “apropos,” per the Post. The detail of the Disney uniform and badge — allegedly still with him in the vehicle as he arrived to meet who he believed was a 14-year-old — was picked up in national coverage of the sting alongside the former Mickey Mouse performer and the coach Judd called the “worst of the worst.”
Snyder’s arrest also fed the operation’s broader accounting: WKMG’s full roster paired each of the child-predator suspects with the specific felony counts detectives had filed, including Snyder’s.
Current Status
Snyder was taken into custody at the undercover location and charged with the four felony counts listed above. The cited reports record only the arrest and the charges: no plea, arraignment, or trial date appears in them, and nothing about the case had been adjudicated as of the October 30, 2026 announcements. He is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Impact on Their Career/Life
His Disney employment was the defining fact of his public identification: both cited outlets named him as a current Disney World worker, and the uniform and badge found in his vehicle pointed the same way. Judd confirmed that everyone arrested in the week who was still working at Disney at the time of arrest had been fired — so if Snyder was on the job as he told detectives, that position ended with the arrest. WKMG noted he was among the theme-park and resort employees caught in the sweep.