Eight Arrested In Undercover Sex Sting

Eight people have been arrested during an undercover sex sting in the area of Langan Park in Mobile.

Two of them are Mobile County Public School employees.

Danny Moncla, a social studies teacher at Grand Bay Middle School, is charged with loitering for the purpose of deviant sexual activity.

Moncla was also arrested in 2009 in an undercover sex sting at the scenic overlook in Daphne.

Investigators said he asked a male officer for sexual favors.

That case was eventually dismissed with conditions.

Thus far, there has been no response from the Mobile school system about Moncla's future in the classroom.

The other school employee is James Fredriksen.

He works in the school district's central office.

Fredriksen is charged with loitering for the purpose of deviate sexual activity, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of salvia.

That's a plant which can make you hallucinate.

Police said the arrests were made by undercover officers over a three day period, beginning Monday.

They said the arrests were the result of complaints from citizens and park goers.

Christopher Levy with the Mobile Police Department said, "It's a family place. Any kind of sexual activity is unacceptable in a park."

Police arrested eight people earlier this week on misdemeanor charges of loitering for the purpose of deviate sexual activity.

Levy said, "We simply send these officers out there, and they really just hangout, and they're approached by these men for the purpose of having sex."

Langan Park is an especially popular place in the summer.

Bridgette and Clay Moss brought their 16 month old son Kenton to the park Thursday.

Clay Moss said, "It something that, if you're going to do it, do it in a more private setting, I guess, not in a public park where children are exposed to it, if they are exposed to it."

Bridgette Moss said, "You know, you try to protect your kids from something like that, and, its not something to do in a park, especially a park for kids."

Andre Richardson has three children.

Richardson said, "To hear something like that, I wouldn't expect it, but, even knowing that its going on now, it makes me a little bit more cautious, me being a parent."

And police said they'll do another undercover operation, if they receive more citizen complaints.