Rodrigo Gustavo Perreira
Introduction
Rodrigo Gustavo Perreira is a 30-year-old Davenport, Florida, man who, per the sheriff’s office, is in the country from Brazil on a student visa to study theology in Los Angeles, CA — and who, per WKMG’s roster, went further through the undercover script than most: explicit photos, a video call, and then a drive to the location where deputies were waiting. His entry is among the fullest in the published list, and its details run from a seminary classroom in California to an arrest in Central Florida. Everything below is drawn from the roster WKMG obtained from the sheriff’s office and stands as an account of charges, not of anything proven.
Background Information
WKMG tags his entry “BRAZIL STUDENT VISA — Rodrigo Gustavo Perreira, 30, of Davenport,” the label resting on the immigration detail the roster opens with. The entry belongs to the haul from “Polk Around and Find Out II,” the operation Polk County’s sheriff’s office rolled out at a news conference on Friday, October 30, 2026: seven days of detectives working online in the roles of children or their guardians, 281 arrests, and, in Sheriff Grady Judd’s estimate, the largest undercover operation the county has ever run. WKMG reported that it received the predator roster, charges included, from the sheriff’s office.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Charged, not convicted. Perreira was arrested in the operation and faces five counts, from computer solicitation through a chemicals charge. The account below comes from sheriff’s office statements as reported by WKMG; none of it has been adjudicated, and he is presumed innocent.
The roster begins with his circumstances: he is in the country from Brazil on a student visa, studying theology in Los Angeles, CA. It then describes the contact — pictures of his penis sent to an undercover detective posing as the guardian of a 13-year-old boy, with a message that he wanted the boy to “suck it,” quoted as the entry prints it. The boy and the guardian were both the detective’s performance; no real child figures in the account.
From there the entry escalates. WKMG records that Perreira also video-chatted with the detective, masturbating during the call, and then traveled to the undercover location, where he was taken into custody. Deputies also noted what he carried: “poppers,” the inhalant that surfaces again on his charge list. His is one of the entries where the narrative runs to completion — messages, video, drive, and arrest, in the order the sheriff’s office tells it.
Five counts are printed for him: use of computer to solicit guardian; traveling to meet a minor after soliciting guardian; use of two-way communication device to commit a felony; attempted lewd/lascivious battery on a minor; and possession with intent to inhale harmful chemicals. Each tracks a beat of the entry’s arc, from the messages through the drive to the item deputies say he brought along.
Public Reaction and Consequences
Judd’s news-conference framing — “This is the single largest undercover operation we’ve ever done,” aimed at those who “want to prey upon our folks” — set the tone for the week’s coverage. The Post’s side of the ledger ran to the prostitution cases: 117 people charged with soliciting, an Orange County deputy among them, 122 with committing it, and 11 people screened as trafficking victims and offered services. Neither report addresses Perreira beyond the roster’s own lines; his label and his five charges are the whole of his public footprint in the coverage.
Current Status
Perreira was taken into custody at the undercover location on the five counts listed above. Beyond that, the cited reports are silent: no arraignment, no plea, and no court dates appear anywhere in them, and nothing had been adjudicated as of the October 30, 2026 announcements. The presumption of innocence applies in full — the public record is the sheriff’s office’s account, and nothing more.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The biographical detail is what sets his entry apart: a student visa and a course of study — theology — a continent away from the Davenport address the roster lists. The cited reports say nothing about his enrollment, his visa standing after the arrest, or any institutional response; those threads are simply absent from the record. What the record holds is the arrest itself, five felony counts, and a published label that turns his immigration status into the headline over his entry. WKMG’s count of 17 arrestees with theme-park or resort jobs, seven of them predator arrests, touches other entries — not his.