Kevin Sims
Introduction
Kevin Sims is a 51-year-old Davenport, Florida, man who, per the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, opened an online conversation with an undercover detective not with words but with photographs — two of them, sexual in nature, sent to a detective posing as the guardian of a 13-year-old boy. WKMG’s record of the exchange is among the shortest in the roster: two sentences that begin with the photos and end with Sims saying he was horny and wanted to come have sex with the boy. The roster gives no employer for him. The account here comes from the arrest roster WKMG obtained from the sheriff’s office.
Background Information
The roster entry is headed “WANTED TO COME HAVE SEX — Kevin Sims, 51, of Davenport,” the label drawn from his own words in the exchange the sheriff’s office describes. It sits inside the results of “Polk Around and Find Out II,” which the sheriff’s office announced on Friday, October 30, 2026, after seven days of undercover online work: 281 arrests in all, which Sheriff Grady Judd’s office billed as the biggest such operation in the county’s history. Detectives spent the week posing as children or as their guardians, and WKMG reported receiving the predator list, each suspect’s charges included, from the sheriff’s office.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Charged, not convicted. Sims was arrested in the sting and faces four counts, all tied to the online exchange the roster describes. The narrative below is the sheriff’s office’s account; nothing has been tested in court and he is presumed innocent.
Per the roster, Sims initiated an online conversation with an undercover detective posing as the guardian of a 13-year-old boy by sending two photos of his penis. He then said, quoted as the entry prints it, that he was horny and wanted to come have sex with the boy. That is the whole of his printed account. There is no drive in it: where many entries in the same roster close with a suspect traveling to the undercover location and being taken into custody, Sims’ narrative stops at the conversation, and this page does not narrate a trip either.
His charge list, though, is printed in the operation’s standard form: traveling to meet a minor, use of computer to solicit guardian, use of two-way communication device to commit a felony, and attempted lewd/lascivious battery on a minor. The traveling count appears on his list as charged even though the account the sheriff’s office released describes no journey — the record shows the charges as printed, and the narrative they attach to runs only two sentences. And as in every entry, the boy and his guardian were roles played by law enforcement; the account contains no actual child.
Public Reaction and Consequences
At the news conference, Judd called the week “the single largest undercover operation we’ve ever done” and described its purpose as going “out into the underworld and look for those who want to prey upon our folks.” The Post reported the operation netted 281 arrests in all — child predators and human traffickers among them — and that 11 people who were being trafficked were rescued, with a majority of the arrests involving prostitution. Neither report quotes anyone about Sims individually — his label does the talking, and the citation trail on his name runs only through WKMG’s roster.
Current Status
Sims was taken into custody during the sweep on the four counts listed above. The cited reports add nothing about his path through the courts — no arraignment date, no plea, no hearings — and nothing had been adjudicated as of the October 30, 2026 announcements. He remains innocent under the law; what exists publicly is the sheriff’s office’s account of the two photographs and the message that followed them.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The roster states no employer for Sims. His entry carries no workplace — nothing that connects him to the theme-park thread of the operation or to any other line of work, and the sheriff’s office’s release offered none. WKMG reported that 17 of the suspects told detectives they work at local theme parks or resorts, seven of them child-predator arrests, and that arrestees still employed at Disney when arrested had been fired; none of that reaches a 51-year-old from Davenport whose printed account names no job at all. The fixed point of his record is the opening move instead: two photographs sent to a persona that did not exist, per the roster, before a single word of conversation. The cited record closes at the charge list.