Skip to main content
Clear icon
65º

Sting operation nets UCF vice chair after hookup app users turn to public parks

Undercover deputies use Sniffies to stop sex meetings at public parks in Florida

ORLANDO, Fla. – Deputies used Sniffies, a service advertised as a “map-based hookup app for gay, bisexual, and bicurious men” — and allegedly so did the vice chairman of the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees.

Harold Mills, the former chief executive officer of a multi-billion-dollar company with operations in over 45 countries, was arrested Thursday afternoon at Sanlando Park, Altamonte Springs.

An undercover deputy reported Mills, 53, was in a Tesla when they met and asked him for oral sex. Once in the park, the deputy reported Mills showed him his penis in public. The takedown was in a restroom.

“None of this should overshadow the immense contributions that Harold has made to the underprivileged, the arts, business, and his countless employees over the years,” Attorney Mark NeJame told Florida Politics on Saturday.

Mills, a Purdue University and Harvard Business School grad, is also a trustee at Rollins College in Winter Park, and his Aspen Institute profile mentions he supported the Florida Hospital for Children and the Boy Scouts.

Mills was facing charges of soliciting a prostitute and indecent exposure and he bonded out of Seminole County jail on Friday. A man used paper to cover Mills’s face, as reporters surrounded him.

The undercover sting operation aiming to stop users from meeting at public parks for sex also netted Leroy Green, a Seminole County Sheriff’s Office employee arrested at Liberty Park in Lake Mary. Green resigned.


About the Author
Andrea Torres headshot

The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.

Loading...

Recommended Videos