B.C. Teacher Caught in ‘Predator’ Sting on Grindr Handed 7-Year Ban

Nanaimo-Ladysmith teacher suspended after messaging ‘youth’ on Grindr

A teacher from the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district had his teaching licence suspended for a total of 10 years after messaging and planning to meet a person who he thought was a 14-year-old boy on the dating app Grindr.

B.C. teacher caught in ‘predator’ sting on Grindr handed 7-year ban

A B.C. high school teacher has been banned from his profession for seven years after he was caught arranging to meet with someone who presented as a 14-year-old on the dating app Grindr.

Multi-year ban for B.C. teacher caught in Grindr sting chatting with user he believed was 14

A British Columbia high school teacher has been handed a multi-year ban after he was caught arranging to meet who he thought was a 14-year-old boy through the dating app Grindr.

B.C. high school teacher caught up in Grindr sting operation

A B.C. high school teacher has been punished after being implicated in an apparent sting operation involving someone posing as a 14-year-old boy on Grindr. A decision from British Columbia’s commissioner for teacher regulation named Carlo Deni Pavan as the teacher, with the incidents taking place in March 2023. According to the decision, Pavan used Grindr to contact someone with an unknown profile who had no age listed. He later learned that the…

B.C. teacher suspended 10 years for Grindr chats with '14-year-old boy'

A Vancouver Island high school teacher has been banned for 10 years after using a dating app to arrange a meet-up with a man posing as a teenage boy to conduct a predator sting.