A Connecticut man charged with coercing sexual images from a Eugene boy had his bond revoked after a citizen group known as Predator Poachers provided new evidence to police, the group’s founder said.

Sean Sayer pleaded not guilty Jan. 22 in a Connecticut courtroom to a host of charges that include 12 counts of producing child pornography.

At the January hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Garcia in Connecticut allowed Sayer to remain on home incarceration pending a criminal trial, despite federal prosecutors alleging Sayer had “coerced, manipulated, and demanded sexually explicit images from approximately 89 children.”

Sayer, described by a federal public defender as intellectually disabled and autistic, was prohibited from going online as part of the conditions for his home detention.

The group Predator Poachers has members pose as minors online, said Alex Rosen, founder of the Houston-based group.

“Sean Sayer was messaging who he believed to be a 13-year-old boy we were posing as,” Rosen said. The group’s sting operation did not target him, Sayer said, but they later identified the man communicating with the decoy as Sayer.

Video hosted on the group’s Locals site, where supporters can view interactions between the group and adults, showed a video call and then members of the group meeting with a person identified as “Sean.” Video also shows the group speaking to police in Naugatuck, Connecticut.

Naugatuck police announced the Feb. 17 arrest of Sayer for violating conditions of his pretrial release. Lt. Alexia McMasters referred questions about Sayer’s arrest to the FBI, which did not respond to questions submitted by Lookout. A spokesperson for Connecticut’s U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment about Sayer’s arrest.

A Feb. 17 order of detention issued by Garcia cited “clear and convincing evidence that the Defendant has violated his conditions of release by accessing internet capable devices and having contact with individuals he believed to be minors.”

The order noted a petition filed in court alleging Sayer used an electronic device to “engage in sexually explicit conversations with individuals he believed to be minors.”

Jury selection for Sayer’s criminal trial is set for June 30 in Connecticut.