An Orange County eighth-grade teacher was among 14 people arrested during a Lake County undercover operation to find adults soliciting children for sex online.

  • Lake operation targeted people soliciting children online
  • Orange County teacher among more than dozen arrested
  • Jason D. Sellards works at Wolf Lake Middle School

In the week-long operation, called "Treasure Florida's Kids II," Lake detectives posed as 13-, 14- or 15-year-old male and female children and corresponded with subjects.

After talking online with the subjects, all but one of them traveled with the intent to have sex with whom they thought to be a child, deputies said. One other person didn't travel but was arrested at his home.

One of the 14 arrested was English/Language Arts teacher Jason D. Sellards, 48, of Leesburg, who works at Wolf Lake Middle School.

"His status with the district has not been addressed yet. It will be soon," an Orange County School District spokeswoman said.