James Robinson
Introduction
James Robinson is a 28-year-old Tampa man who was arrested in “Polk Around and Find Out II,” the Polk County child-predator sweep announced October 30, 2026. The sheriff’s office lists him among the predator suspects with five felony counts, among them transmission of material harmful to a minor — a charge that tracks what deputies say he sent online to someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl. WKMG’s roster carries his entry under the label “NUDE PHOTOS.” Neither report offers biographical detail beyond his age and city.
Background Information
The operation that produced his arrest ran for seven days across multiple agencies, with detectives who posed in online chats as children or as the children’s guardians; it closed with 281 arrests, the largest sting in Polk County’s history per the New York Post’s account of Judd’s announcement. News 6 reports that its roster of predator suspects and their charges was provided by the sheriff’s office, and Robinson’s is one of the entries built around material allegedly transmitted mid-chat rather than a meeting.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Charged, not convicted. Robinson was arrested in the sting and charged with felonies including traveling to meet a minor and transmission of material harmful to a minor. The allegations below come from Polk County Sheriff’s Office statements, and nothing has been adjudicated — he is presumed innocent.
Per the roster, Robinson sent social media messages to an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old girl. Along with the messages, deputies wrote, he transmitted nude photos of himself and a video of himself masturbating. He also told the person he believed was a child that he wanted to record himself having sex with her. The entry’s label compresses all of that into two words, and the harmful-material count maps directly onto the photos and video described.
One further detail appears in the account: detectives noted that Robinson told them he has a three-year-old son. Neither report draws any conclusion from that statement or connects it to the charges; it sits in the roster as recorded.
The count list WKMG prints for him runs to five: traveling to meet a minor, use of computer to seduce a child, use of two-way communication device to commit a felony, transmission of material harmful to a minor, and attempted lewd/lascivious battery on a minor. Unlike many entries on the same list, Robinson’s contains no described trip to an undercover house — the traveling charge is listed, but the account itself narrates no journey and no arrest scene. The roster gives no dates for the exchanges and no platform detail beyond “social media”; like the other entries WKMG published, it reduces the alleged contact to a few recorded lines and attaches the charges.
Public Reaction and Consequences
Judd’s announcement dealt in aggregate numbers rather than Robinson’s case in particular. “This is the single largest undercover operation we’ve ever done,” Judd said, per WKMG. Among the figures per the Post: nine of those charged were on probation, 31 had prior prostitution charges, and 36 were married. “At least they were as of the time that they were arrested,” the sheriff quipped, per the same account. “I don’t know what their significant other thinks about them today.” WKMG’s contribution was the roster itself, published so that each predator arrest — his included — could be read charge by charge. No statement from Robinson or anyone representing him appears in either report.
Current Status
The public record of Robinson’s case ends at the charging stage: five felony counts, filed per the sheriff’s office and published October 30, 2026. Neither cited report contains an arraignment, a plea, counsel of record, or any hearing date, and nothing in the case had been adjudicated when the coverage was published. The presumption of innocence attaches to every count until a court says otherwise.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The reports identify no employer for Robinson, and this page invents none: what is known of his life comes from the roster’s lines alone — a Tampa residence, the age deputies printed, and the charges. Because no workplace is mentioned, the firings Judd confirmed for arrestees still employed at Disney, per the Post, have no documented application to him. WKMG separately noted that 17 suspects in the sweep told detectives they work at local theme parks or resorts, seven of them among the child-predator arrests; the reports do not place Robinson in that group. Beyond the custody and the five-count list, the sources are silent on what else has changed for him.