A 38-year-old man named Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was arrested in Las Vegas last week during a “multi-agency operation targeting child sex predators.” Before he could be prosecuted, he fled to Israel — where, it turns out, he is a senior official in Israel’s National Cyber Directorate. The U.S. State Department insists he “did not claim diplomatic immunity and was released by a state judge pending a court date. Any claims that the U.S. government intervened are false.” But that statement sidesteps the obvious question: how was he allowed to leave the country at all? Standard protocol in these cases would be to seize his passport. Instead, while supposedly awaiting a court date next week, Alexandrovich boarded a plane and vanished. This case highlights a disturbing pattern: alleged sex offenders fleeing the U.S. to Israel — and Washington rarely, if ever, pressing for extradition. Why would Israelis tolerate this? Aren’t they concerned about living in a country where sexual predators can roam freely under government protection? The Israeli Prime Minister’s office released a statement denying that Alexandrovich had even been arrested — an obvious lie. He also claimed the arrest would have “no diplomatic implications” for the Washington–Tel Aviv relationship. That part is true: no American authority will care, even though the man allegedly tried to “lure a child with mental disabilities for sexual purposes.” By letting him slip out of the country — with his passport in hand — the U.S. effectively chose not to protect the child victim, but to protect the relationship with Israel. The post Sex Crimes, No Extradition, No Consequences appeared first on Redacted.