Maryland: Senate candidate arrested, charged with making false child sex trafficking report

On July 15, Maryland’s Harford County Sheriff’s Office shared a story that sounded like it was ripped from the pages of a seedy made-for TV movie.  Their report combines the lurid components of a political senatorial candidate with an assumed identity, child sex trafficking allegations, adult bookstores and lying to police.

Detectives ended up charging the Baltimore man with making a false statement after he made a false report to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office regarding child sex trafficking.

​Back on April 13, detectives with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office received information regarding child sex trafficking occurring at an adult bookstore in the 3000 block of Pulaski Highway in Edgewood. Detectives identified an employee of the business, Ryan Dark White, a.k.a. Dr. Jon McGreevey, 54, a candidate for United States Senate, as the source of the information.

​The information provided to detectives claimed an older adult male was in the business with a young girl, 10-12 years of age, forcing the child to perform sexual acts on male customers.

​Detectives assigned to the Harford County Child Advocacy Center immediately initiated an investigation into the information provided. At no time was a formal report filed with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office by anyone who purported to witness the incident. Detectives conducted interviews, followed leads, gathered digital evidence, and identified the adult male and juvenile female mentioned in the initial complaint.

White has an online campaign site where he goes by the name Jon McGreevey.

White has appeared in a couple videos with Andy Kuhl, a Republican candidate for Baltimore County Sheriff, to detail how he exposed the alleged abuse. ~ CBS News, Baltimore

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On July 7, detectives interviewed White. The investigation revealed that at no time were any sex acts ever performed or offered by any of the individuals in the establishment as reported by White.

​On July 15, detectives arrested Ryan White and charged him with making false statements to a law enforcement officer and false statement of the commission of a crime and existence of a condition imminently dangerous to public health and safety. He was transported to the Harford County Detention Center where he is being held pending an initial appearance before a District Court Commissioner.

According to CBS, White’s lies and false allegations include:

• Claiming to be employed at the adult bookstore as part of a sting operation looking into Baltimore City drug deals,

• That the bookstore housed hundreds of pounds of drugs,

• That child sex trafficking was going down inside the bookstore,

• That he was being followed by someone driving “a silver Jeep that belongs to someone involved in the trafficking and poisoning”

Facebook and Twitter accounts purportedly for McGreevey’s campaign have only a handful of posts. But White appears to maintain an active presence on Truth Social, the platform founded by former President Donald Trump. ~ ~ CBS News, Baltimore

​The investigation is ongoing. No further information is being released at this time. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, Child Advocacy Center at 410-879-2000.

​“It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda” said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler.

“It is even more appalling, that another individual, who is running for a law enforcement position, would embrace such an obviously false narrative in an effort to gain political traction – nothing more. I am beyond grateful this young girl is safe, but extremely disappointed someone would attempt to discredit and disparage the work of the dedicated men and women of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office and Child Advocacy Center. Fearmongering and antagonism caused wasted time and energy by our personnel, whose time would have been better served protecting the citizens of Harford County, instead of investigating lies.”

You can see White a.k.a. McGreevey in the video below where he’s portending to expose child sex trafficking in Maryland.

(Source and Ryan Dark White mugshot: HCSO)

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