Tyrese Anthony Hill
Introduction
Tyrese Anthony Hill is a 26-year-old Haines City, Florida, man whose entry appears on the child-predator roster WKMG published after the Polk County Sheriff’s Office wrapped its record-setting undercover operation in October 2026. His is one of the entries that runs to a completed trip: per the roster, he sent sexual messages to someone he believed was guarding a 13-year-old boy, then drove to a meeting place where officers were waiting. The headline over his summary — “LEAVING EPCOT” — quotes his own message, and it has become the line his name is attached to. The account here is drawn from that arrest list and the sting coverage cited below, and it records charges and police claims, not proven conduct.
Background Information
Hill’s entry sits among the results of “Polk Around and Find Out II,” the seven-day, multi-agency sweep the sheriff’s office announced on Friday, October 30, 2026, which closed with 281 arrests and was billed as the largest undercover operation in Polk County’s history. Through that week, detectives posed online as children or as their guardians and let suspects come to them. WKMG reported obtaining the roster of child-predator suspects, charges included, from the sheriff’s office; the same operation counted 17 arrestees who said they hold theme-park or resort jobs, seven of them within the predator group, plus more than 100 suspects facing prostitution-related counts and roughly 30 identified as undocumented immigrants.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Charged, not convicted. Hill was arrested in the sting and faces three felony counts. What follows is the sheriff’s office’s account as published by WKMG; nothing has been tested in court, and he is presumed innocent.
Per the roster, the conversation was with an undercover detective posing as the guardian of a 13-year-old boy — a guardian track, meaning the person Hill thought he was negotiating with was never the child but an adult claiming to control access to one. At some point he told the UC he was “leaving Epcot and seeing if anyone wants to meet up.” That quoted line locates him at or near the theme park when the message went out; neither cited report says he worked there, and no employment appears anywhere in his entry. The “boy,” throughout, was a persona, and no real child figured in the events described.
The roster also preserves, in quotation marks, what he told the UC he was into: “hj, bj, topping, kissing, etc.” With the terms set, per the entry, he traveled to the undercover location and was taken into custody on arrival. His is not one of the summaries that trails off before a trip — the drive, the destination, and the arrest are all part of the printed narrative.
His printed charges, per the sheriff’s office: attempted lewd/lascivious battery on a minor; traveling to meet a minor after soliciting guardian; and use of two-way communication device to commit a felony. That is the whole list — three counts — and it is worth noting what is absent: unlike most entries on the roster, no use-of-computer-to-solicit count is printed for him, and this page records the list exactly as published.
Public Reaction and Consequences
Sheriff Grady Judd framed the week’s work bluntly at the announcement, per the New York Post’s coverage: “The focus here is to go out into the underworld and look for those who want to prey upon our folks.” The Post’s accounting of the 281 arrests included 117 people charged with soliciting prostitution — an Orange County deputy among them — 11 people screened as trafficking victims and offered services, nine arrestees already on probation, 31 with prior prostitution charges, and 32 people in the country illegally from nine countries, 22 of them illegally collecting public assistance totaling more than $100,000 a year. Neither publication records any remark specific to Hill; within this operation, his public identity is the roster line, the two-word label, and the quoted message about Epcot.
Current Status
Hill was booked during the operation on the three counts listed above. Past the arrest and the charge list, the cited reports go quiet: no arraignment, no plea, no court appearance, and no disposition of any kind as of the October 30, 2026 announcements. The record here is the sheriff’s office’s version of events, and the presumption of innocence stays with him unless and until a court says otherwise.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Neither the roster nor the Post identifies any job or employer for Hill, so no workplace consequence can be traced through the cited coverage — the Epcot message records where he said he was that night, not where he worked. What the record does show is the sting’s standard exposure: his name, age, and city on a published arrest list, a quoted line that searches of his name will surface indefinitely, and three felony counts that now define his public footprint. Those are the consequences of being publicly accused, not findings of guilt, and neither report says anything about where he stands beyond the charges.