VIDEO UPDATE: Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey Provides Update After Arrest of Dylen Luke Shortt
By Wayne Ivey, Brevard Sheriff // November 9, 2024
Video Message from Sheriff Wayne Ivey
ABOVE VIDEO: Live Investigation and Arrest Update With Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey.
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – This past week, our Deputies and Agents arrested Dylen Luke Shortt for yet another sick and disgusting criminal act after he lured two young teenage girls close to his car and then showed them pornographic pictures on his cell phone.
The investigation into the matter started on October 18, 2024, after our Deputies responded to a call for service where an 11 year-old and a 12 year-old girl reported that a male suspect had been following them on two separate days, while they were walking near Canaveral City Park in Cape Canaveral.
On one of the occasions, the suspect stopped his vehicle beside the girls, gained their attention, and then used his cell phone to show them pornographic images before driving away.
As a result of the initial investigation, and with assistance of our North Precinct Deputies, Agent Tonisha Cox was able to positively identify the suspect as Dylen Luke Shortt.
What’s really scary is that Shortt was out on bond at the time the incident occurred, as he was previously arrested by our partners at Titusville PD after he got caught masturbating in the women’s and girl’s clothing sections at the Target Store in Titusville.
That’s right…he gets arrested for masturbating in public, in the middle of the women’s and girl’s section of Target, and then at first appearance a Judge gives him a one thousand dollar bond, which is actually double what the bond schedule calls for based upon his misdemeanor charges.
He easily bonds out and then does some more sick crap by targeting little girls who were walking down the street.
Well thankfully, Agent Cox got a warrant for him on our charges and our GAME OVER Task Force Agents hunted him down and locked his sorry excuse for a human being self behind bars at the Brevard County Jail for Distributing Obscene Material To A Minor.
While that might seem like a bright spot in this case, it’s not, because the warrant for his arrest only carried a bond of $15,000 and he quickly bonded out again, so he is back out on our streets where he can target yet another child.
Folks, I appreciate that the initial Judge at first appearance gave him double the bond that was indicated on the bond schedule, but I have had it with this soft on crime crap we see playing out in our criminal justice system.
Our team and partners do their jobs by locking up bad people and then the system puts them right back out on the street so they can target more citizens, and in this case, innocent children.
I always tell our citizens…“if you see something, say something” so please tell your kids to be on the lookout for anything of this nature and to never go anywhere near a vehicle that they don’t know the person who is inside.
When is our criminal justice system going to learn that the only way to protect citizens, and especially our most precious of citizens…our children, is to keep bad people with bad intentions locked behind bars.
– Sheriff Wayne Ivey
