The two men, an elementary school teacher and a handyman, were found when detectives contacted them on Craigslist. According to a separate press release (PDF), “Sheriff's detectives set up meetings through computer communications where the suspects believed they were meeting the owners of dogs to have sex with the animals at a hotel."

The letter to Buckmaster says that "numerous other posts" were also discovered in the "men seeking men" and "casual encounters" sections of Craigslist that "included specific description of criminal acts” and were “often accompanied by graphic photographs depicting a fully nude male in various pornographic situations."