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The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923 by brothers, Walt and Roy Disney as a small animation studio, it has become one of the biggest Hollywood studios, and owner of eleven theme parks and several television networks, including the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).  Disney's corporate headquarters and primary production facilities are located in California at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank).  The company is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It had annual revenues of $34.3 billion in 2006, and a market capitalization of $71.7 billion as of April 30, 2007.

Senior Executive Management

  Bob Iger (President and CEO)

  Roy E. Disney (Director Emeritus)

  Thomas O. Staggs (Senior Executive Vice President and CFO)

  Alan N. Braverman (Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel)

  John Lasseter (Chief Creative Officer)

Adrijk Jose Duran

Disney employee arrested on child porn charges

March 17, 2009

CLERMONT -- Lake County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Walt Disney World employee on charges of possessing child pornography after searching his computer Monday afternoon following an online undercover investigation.

Adrijk Jose Duran, 20, of Clermont admitted to downloading files of child pornography and stated he became curious when he began viewing the images last year.

Duran, who was listed as an employee for Crystal Magic at Walt Disney World as a crystal engraver, saved the downloaded images into a file labeled "data" on his laptop, according to authorities.

Sheriff's detectives working as part of the Internet Crimes Against Children task force obtained a search warrant after interviewing him online. Detectives found numerous images depicting children as young as 3 years engaged in sex acts with other children and adults.

When questioned by detectives, Duran admitted to using search terms such as "lolita" and "child porn."

Duran faces 10 counts of possession of child.

Following his arrest, Duran was transported to the sheriff's substation in the South Lake area and then to the Lake County Jail. At press time, he remains in jail on $100,000 bond.

William Arthur Bishop

Man sentenced to 30 years for molesting girl at hotel on Disney property

September 19, 2008

Morency Dorelus

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A man who worked as a ride operator at Walt Disney World was arrested for molesting a 14 year old girl. Morency Dorelus, 18, was fired since his arrest Sunday.

Dorelus was charged with lewd and lascivious molestation and interfering with child custody.

Edwin Sotomayer

Disney guard sues over firing for gun

July 10, 2008

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former Disney World security guard is suing after his firing for challenging the park on a new law allowing gun owners to keep firearms in their cars at work.

Edwin Sotomayor of Kissimmee filed the lawsuit Friday morning in Orlando.

Sotomayor was fired Monday. Disney says he refused to cooperate with investigators who wanted to know if he brought a gun to work with him

The 36-year-old had told local media he planned to challenge Disney's claim of an exemption by having a gun locked in his car when he reported to work at Disney's Animal Kingdom.

Disney World believes it is exempt from the law and a spokeswoman says the company maintains a zero-tolerance policy for employees who bring guns onto the property.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Disney Security Guard Fired After Bringing Gun To Workplace

July 7, 2008

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- A Disney security guard who challenged the company's anti-gun policy has been fired.

Disney considered itself exempt from the state's new law that lets employees bring their guns to work if they're left locked in the car. But Sotomayer told  local news stations that he'd bring his gun anyway.

Monday, the company fired him for violating company policy by not cooperating with its investigation.

Sotomayer has already hired a lawyer.

Disney Employee Suspended After Bringing Gun To Work

July 4, 2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A new state law went on the books Tuesday saying people could bring guns to work if they kept them locked in their car. Disney, though, said it was exempt from the new law and its 62,000 employees needed to keep their guns at home.

Friday, a worker who protested the park’s decision told local news stations that he was suspended.

The worker was well aware that he could end up losing his job when he took the gun to work Friday morning, but said that the principle at stake means enough to him that he was willing to take the risk, especially on the day we celebrate the country and our freedoms.

As he pulled into work, Edwin Sotomayor recorded Sheriff’s Deputies and Disney managers waiting for him. After he refused a car search, managers drove Sotomayor to their offices, questioned him further and then sent him to his normal post. Four hours into his shift, Sotomayor says he was suspended.

Disney told employees it is exempt from the new law that allows them to bring a gun to work, because it stores fireworks on site.

Disney told local news stations that he was suspended because he wouldn’t cooperate with their investigation. They also said he could be fired for carrying the gun, which he says is about safety on his ride to work.

Sotomayor says he’s willing to be the test case for the new law, even if it means losing his job and going to work.

Disney is investigating the case internally. While Disney employee files are confidential, sources day Sotomayor has been disciplined by Disney in the past. Sotomayor insists he is testing this law on his own and hasn’t been contacted by groups like the NRA.

October 25, 2007

A months-long investigation led authorities to a pipe bomb on busy State Road 417 Wednesday afternoon, halting rush-hour traffic for more than an hour, the Orange County Sheriff's Office disclosed late Wednesday.

A 21-year-old St. Cloud man was in custody Wednesday night, charged with manufacturing an explosive device. An arrest report said the man's father and girlfriend led investigators to the homemade device in the westbound lanes of the highway around 4:30 p.m., about one mile west of John Young Parkway. Traffic was shut down while it was removed.

Deputy sheriffs expect to make at least four more arrests in the case, which also involved the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said Deputy Carlos Padilla, sheriff's spokesman.

"This is not a terrorism plot," Padilla said. "These are local guys who made [the bomb.]"

The sheriff's spokesman did not name the suspect who was in custody. An arrest report at the Orange County Jail identified the man as Brandon Ryan Woll, a server at the Swan and Dolphin Hotel at Walt Disney World. He admitting to placing the bomb, the report said. He was being held on $1,000 bail.

Padilla said the man in custody and others to be arrested would face state and federal charges.

Investigators would not say whether the bomb was live and had to be detonated, but said it was "rendered safe."

Matthew Mancuso

The case of child pornography being made at two Walt Disney World resorts ended Monday when the accused pleaded guilty on sexual battery charges.

Matthew Mancuso, 49, faces 14 years in prison on two counts of attempted sexual battery on a child under 12. The sentence was part of a plea deal entered at 2 p.m., minutes before the case was to go to trial before Orange County Circuit Court Judge Bob LeBlanc.

The pictures were taken during two visits to Walt Disney World. The first was to the Contemporary Resort in 2000. The second was to the Port Orleans Resort in 2001.

"I would like to make a public apology to everything that's happened up to this point," Mancuso said, nearly breaking into tears.

The girl attended the hearing with relatives and spoke about the impact the attacks had on her life.

"For me it's been really hard because it's just really affected me in a lot of ways," the victim, now 15, said.

Mancuso initially faced eight counts of capital sexual battery and life in prison but pleaded today in exchange for a lighter sentence. He will serve his sentence after completing a 15-and-a-half-year federal sentence plus a 35-year sentence on charges in Pennsylvania. Both cases are related to the photographs.

The Pennsylvania case is currently under appeal.

Assistant State Attorney Linda Drane Burdick said the teen was anxious about testifying. If the case went to trial, she may have had to view the pornographic images.

Disney Employee Facing 18 Counts Of Possessing Child Porn

Roberts Apparently Left Laptop In Laundry Room

September 21, 2007

A 44-year-old employee at Disney's Animal Kingdom is accused of keeping child porn photos on a notebook computer that was found in an apartment laundry room.

Kissimmee police said a resident of the Caribbean Isle Apartments found a laptop computer in the laundry room and turned it into office staff.

In order to identify the owner of the computer, the staff said they turned on the computer and found a file containing child pornography photos, a Kissimmee police report said.

The staff also identified the owner as resident Darren Lamar Roberts and called police, according to the report.

Kissimmee police found and interviewed Roberts Friday.

During the interview, Roberts identified the computer as his property and he was arrested, the police report said.

Roberts was charged with 18 counts of possession child pornography. The charge is a third-degree felony and carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison on each count if convicted.

Roberts remains in the Osceola County Jail.

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Walt Disney World worker Tony Guerra arrested for possessing and distributing child pornography

Police: Walt Disney World Worker Traveled To Have Sex With 14-Year-Old Girl

Disney worker arrested on charges of sex with child

Also, an 18-year-old man also told police that Johnson molested him when he was 8 years old

August 1, 2007

CLERMONT, FLORIDA - A 54-year-old Disney maintenance man remained at the Lake County Jail without bail Tuesday on charges of sexual battery involving a child, police said.

Christian V. Johnson of Clermont, who was arrested Friday, is accused of molesting a girl on multiple occasions from the time she was 10 to 14 years old, police said. An 18-year-old man also told police that Johnson molested him when he was 8 years old.

Johnson told investigators he did not see anything wrong with the sexual relationship he had with the female victim, according to an arrest report. He denied touching the male victim.

Johnson worked as an electronics maintenance worker at Walt Disney World and has been placed on unpaid leave pending the outcome of the charges, Disney spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez said.

Christian V. Johnson

Christian V. Johnson's Booking Detail Sheet

A total of 28 suspects, including three Walt Disney World workers, were arrested in the joint undercover operation.

Internet Sex Sting Nets 28 including three Walt Disney World Employees

It was the 2nd major sting aimed at child predators by Polk sheriff's detectives.

Police arrested 28 men in Polk County during "Operation Cyber Hawk," an undercover operation aimed at luring predators out of the woodwork.

Cops pretended to be 13- and 14-year-old girls and boys in online chatrooms as they worked from their headquarters, a wired house called "Four Corners." For four days, 24 hours a day, more than 50 police officers were in contact with more than 250 men from all over Florida — and even some from other countries.

“They want to prey on 13- and 14-year-old girls and that is what we found this weekend,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told FOXNews in an interview. “The vast majority of them did confess and some of them had lame excuses.”

When the predators wanted to speak to the little girls with whom they thought they were chatting, female officers spoke on the phone, using a younger sounding voice. The predators set up meetings with the youngsters and, when they arrived at the house for the meeting, police nabbed them.

“Once the door's open, there you see undercover agents,” Judd said. “It’s not only deputies, it's agents from state and federal government that worked with us as well as law enforcement agencies in North Carolina.”

“We arrested people in BMWs, in Mercedes, in rental cars, Disney employees, Boys and Girls Club employees, vice presidents of a big corporation,” Judd continued. “Every walk of life, we put them in jail.”

Three of the arrested men told authorities they were employees of Walt Disney Co., which operates theme parks in the area, according to the sheriff's report. Some were unemployed or worked as laborers; others were in food service, sales or finance. One man said he was an IBM consultant; another a vice president for a South Florida real estate company. They ranged in age from college students to men in their 40s and 50s.

Thierry Ferron, 44
1433 Tulamore Loop, Winter Garden, Florida, White Male, DOB 03/14/1963
Charges: Solicit Minor Via Internet/Attempted Lewd Battery/Contributing to Delinquency of a Minor/Receiving Computer Statements for Purpose of Sexual Conduct

"We take allegations of this nature seriously," Disney spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez said in an e-mail. "When we receive confirmation of these allegations, we will take appropriate action."

Disney would not comment further on what the employees did or whether they had routine contact with children. The company said all cast members must pass background checks when they're hired.

Segundo and Gaugh remained in jail awaiting bail on Monday. Ferry posted bond and was released Sunday. It was not immediately known if the men had attorneys.

Judd said that these predators are on the hunt for children, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

“What we don’t know is were they going to talk those children into going with them?" he asked. "Were they going to abduct them? Were they going to become scared after engaging in sex intercourse and say ‘we need to just kill them?’”

10 Arrested in Child Porn Sting

Friday March 9, 2007

By Dana Willhoit
The Ledger

Bartow - When the Polk County sheriff's officials called a press conference Thursday morning to announce they had arrested men who had downloaded child pornography, they presented a list of eleven names.

Next to the name of Edward Dameron was the word "Deceased."

Sheriff's officials said Dameron, a Disney employee who lived in the Davenport area, committed suicide after sheriff's investigators seized his computer on Jan. 23.

On Feb. 5, Dameron hanged himself near his home.

Left behind was an anguished note that told of Dameron's despair at his pending arrest and contained a plea that his pets be cared for after his death.

In a note addressed to his parents, he claimed that he had unintentionally downloaded some "bad" files and couldn't figure out how to delete them.

"If I am convicted, I'll lose my job, house, be a felon, and labeled a 'sex' offender," it said.

Dameron's home was searched and a computer was seized Jan. 23, as part of a sheriff's investigation dubbed "Operation Sentinel."

Dameron's neighbor called sheriff's deputies Feb. 5 and told them he had gone outside to get his garbage cans and had noticed a suitcase sitting next to his garage door.

On top of the suitcase were two notes. One asked the neighbor to call Dameron's parents. The other asked that he call police and contained a hand-drawn map to where Dameron could be found nearby.

In the suitcase was a high school yearbook with a handwritten note addressed to Dameron's parents, along with financial paperwork.

"On Jan. 24/25th the Polk County Sheriffs raided my house. Apparently I had downloaded some 'illegal content,'" the note said. "I was not seeking it out but I knew it was on my computer. I tried to delete the files, but could not. In order to forget/hide from my problems, I turned to downloading video files … I was downloading so many files and did take measures to avoid anything illegal. From time to time I would find a "bad" file but could delete it. This time I could not figure out how. The sheriffs arrived before I could figure it out. Apparently there were more than a few files."

Dameron talked about how he was having problems concentrating and sleeping. "After going to bed - I could not sleep. No matter what I did - no sleep."

He ended by apologizing for the "many ways" he had hurt his parents, and said "Well now you don't have to worry about me any more. And as for me, I will get what I always wanted - to go to sleep and never wake up."
And he begged his parents to care for his cats.

He said "finding someone to take care of them will take a long time. Angel requires bottled water and hyperallergen (sic) cat food - the others can have the regular stuff."

Polk County sheriff's detectives served search warrants and seized computers from 11 men in January, after an investigation led them to think that the men had downloaded child pornography.

The men were not part of a ring and were not connected to one another, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. He declined to say how sheriff's detectives came to suspect the men.

The men were charged with possession of child pornography, ranging in amounts between one image and 59.

According to Assistant State Attorney Brad Copley, people who download child pornography are becoming more savvy and afraid of arrest, and erase the pornography quickly once they have looked at it. However, detectives can often recover it, he said.

Each count of possession of child pornography is a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in state prison.

At a press conference Thursday morning, detectives played the audio portion of a child pornography clip taken from one of the men's computers. In it a man could be heard saying "Good baby" and a baby could be heard crying as it was sexually assaulted.

"It takes your breath away and it breaks your heart that these children have been victimized like that, and that these so-called human beings find energy and entertainment in that," Judd said.

The images on the computers were so vile, "No normal human being can imagine it," Copley said.

None of the men who have been arrested are accused of molesting children nor of making the child pornography that was on their computers, Judd said.

However, by seeking out and frequently buying child pornography, these men help create a market for it, and encourage the manufacture of new child pornography, Judd said.

"These people enjoy it, relish it, and go out and look for it," he said.

As reporters looked on, nine men who had been arrested Thursday morning were led from the criminal investigation division to patrol cars to be transported to the Central County Jail. A tenth man was picked up Thursday afternoon by sheriff's deputies.

Most of the men refused to speak to reporters and tried to hide their faces, but Theodore Weir, 45, of Manseau Drive in Winter Haven, insisted there was no child pornography on his computer.

"They didn't find it," he said. "If they did find it, they put it there. I had no child pornography on my computer."

When asked whether he thought detectives planted it, he said "They had to have, because how else does it get there? This is a persecution, definitely."

Weir has been charged with 59 counts of possession of child pornography, and one count of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.

According to the Sheriff's Office, Weir wiped the pictures off his computer, but left them on a "thumb drive," a computer memory storage device.

Also arrested were:

Terrence Baker, 21, 3150 Pyramid Parkway, Apt. 12, Lakeland.

Sterling Bullard, 18, 121 James St., Auburndale.

David Kent, 1034 Lakeshore Drive, Lakeland.

Michael Merritt, 46, 50989 HWY 27, Lot 85, Davenport.

Kenneth Parker, 25, 347 Audubon Oaks Dr. Apt. 302, Lakeland.

Stanley Schneider, 41, 340 E Swoope St, Lake Alfred.

Clifford Sutton, 53, 1828 Moose Drive, Lakeland.

Mark Swenson, 47, 4800 Pheasant Drive, Mulberry.

Charles Totherow, 28, 6241 Springwoods Lane, Lakeland.

Dana Willhoit can be reached at dana.willhoit@theledger.com or 863-533-9079.

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Disney character cast member accused of child porn possession

Matthew Wendland Released Hours After Arrest

February 9, 2007

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- The Disney World worker accused of having child porn walked out of jail Friday afternoon, just hours after his arrest. Matthew Wendland dressed as The Beast and Goofy characters at the parks. He lives in the Camden World Gateway Apartments off South Apopka Vineland Road. Wendland is charged with 51 counts of child pornography.

It was Wendland's roommates who saw the pornographic images of young children in the apartment they share with him. They contacted the sheriff's office.

Wendland didn't say a word when Eyewitness News cameras were rolling outside sheriff's headquarters Friday morning. The 20-year-old plays the role of The Beast from Beauty and the Beast, and sometimes Goofy, at Walt Disney World. He's now under arrest for child pornography.

"Boys, girls, men, women, he has it all," said Sgt. Rich Mankewich, Orange County Sheriff's Office.

After getting a tip from his roommates, sheriff's investigators confronted Wendland at Walt Disney World, where they said he admitted having the illegal pictures. Then investigators went back to his apartment, where Wendland allegedly showed them dozens of disturbing pornographic images.

A search turned up a half-dozen printed computer pictures of children under 18 performing sex acts or in sexual poses and at least another 45 images on a CD, the arrest report stated. Wendland told authorities he downloaded the images from the Internet.

"They range from three years old on up till adult age. The ones we're charging him with are clearly under 12 years old," Mankewich said.

Sheriff's investigators applauded the roommates for coming forward. They weren't home when Eyewitness News stopped for comment, but his neighbors said they don't like it a bit.

"I wouldn't feel safe anymore with my kids around a Disney character, for sure," said neighbor Kyle Denison.

"Parents probably pretty upset. I don't have a kid, but if I did, I wouldn't want them with that guy as Goofy," said neighbor Tom Coppersmith.

Investigators believe all the porn was downloaded on his computer at home and they have no evidence to suggest he ever touched kids in a bad way. Still, they're glad someone with his job and his alleged tendencies was caught before anyone got hurt.

"Hopefully we prevented anyone from being touched inappropriately," Mankewich said.

Wendland has no prior criminal history in Florida and passed a Disney background check. He had worked for Disney since July. No complaints have been filed against him at the park, Disney spokeswoman Kim Prunty said. He has been suspended without pay, pending the outcome of the charges, she said.

Currently, Wendland faces 51 counts for possessing child porn. He could face even more if a doctor determines more of the people in the pictures are children.

Wendland was released on $8,500 bond Friday. It was not known if he had a lawyer.

Jan. 8: A Disney employee who dresses as Tigger was suspended following allegations he punched a teen during picture time.

Father says ‘Tigger’ hit his son at Disney park
Employee temporarily suspended while authorities investigate incident

January 8, 2007

ORLANDO, Fla. - A Walt Disney World employee dressed as the character “Tigger” was accused of hitting a child while posing for a photo, a spokeswoman for the theme park said Saturday.

Park officials temporarily suspended Michael J. Fedelem while they investigate the accusations, Disney spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez said.

“Naturally, physical altercations between cast members and guests are not tolerated,” Suarez said.

Jerry Monaco of New Hampshire videotaped his son, Jerry Jr., posing with the costumed character at Disney-MGM Studios on Friday and recorded the confrontation, according to a statement from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

The father said Fedelem intentionally hit his son “on or about the head,” said sheriff’s spokesman Carlos M. Padilla. “The tape only shows a fraction of what happened. Now it’s up to us to find out what led up to that.”

A message left by The Associated Press for Monaco was not immediately returned. A telephone listing for Fedelem could not be located.

In 2004 a Walt Disney World employee dressed as Tigger was accused of touching the breast of a 13-year-old girl while she posed with him for a photo. A jury found the man not guilty.

No Charges will be filed against Tigger

February 15, 2007

Tigger, the Walt Disney World character, is no longer in the cross-hairs of the State Attorney's Office.

No charges will be filed against 31-year-old Michael J. Fedelem, the employee playing Winnie the Pooh's bouncy friend, the State Attorney's Office announced today.

Prosecutors reviewed the complaint that Tigger punched a 14-year-old during a home-video session at Disney-MGM Studios last month

Parl R. Dicks, FDOC #169023

Murder Plot Tied To WDW Security Guard

January 6, 2005

A federal investigation of illegal gun sales led to the arrest Wednesday of a Walt Disney World security guard in a murder-for-hire plot. The plot involved a $2,000 down payment made more than a week ago to an ex-convict described by law-enforcement agents as an underworld gun dealer with a history of violence.

"They were going to do it. They were definitely going to do it," said Special Agent Supervisor Wayne Ivey of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Parl Dicks, the Disney employee, admitted late Wednesday that he sought to have his wife's ex-husband killed for $4,000 to settle a child-custody dispute, Ivey said.

The arrest was made at Disney's Fort Wilderness campground by members of FDLE; the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the Osceola County Sheriff's Office, with the assistance of Disney security.

Days earlier, Gerson "Olaf" Yellen had been picked up at his home in Osceola County, where the burly ex-convict is accused of making submachine guns and selling them to drug dealers, according to federal court records in Orlando.

"That's fine; I can make a ton of these," Yellen, 36, said of selling an automatic AK-47, according to a conversation recorded secretly by ATF.

An AK-47 and a 9 mm Sten submachine gun were seized in the investigation, records show.

"God only knows how many of these firearms he has put out on the streets," said Agent Carlos Baixauli, an ATF spokesman. "That's why we jumped on this as fast as we could. . . With one trigger pull, you can throw out a magazine that's full of 32 rounds in seconds."

The weapons investigation began shortly before Christmas when an informant told ATF that Yellen gave him a Sten gun and $750 to kill someone, court records show.

The target of the murder plot was not named Wednesday by authorities, but court records indicate the plot had been researched to the point that the killing was planned so a nearby neighbor, an Orange County deputy, would be at work.

The informant admitted to ATF he once helped Yellen pistol-whip and shoot a victim in the head, records show.

Arrest reports in Palm Beach County and state prison records show Yellen was arrested repeatedly in the late 1980s and early 1990s on burglary, gun and assault charges.

His convictions included serving time in state prison for stealing guns from a home in Boynton Beach, according to court records and an interview with Boynton Beach police.

Dicks, a marksman in Olympic-style shooting events, told agents that he met Yellen through their mutual interest in firearms.

In March, Yellen, his wife and their two children under age 3 rented a house on Boxwood Court in Buenaventura Lakes, an Osceola County subdivision with 22,000 residents, records show.

Within weeks, neighbors on the crowded street of 25 one-fifth-acre lots began hearing banging from Yellen's garage.

"We thought it was fireworks," one homeowner said. "I know my husband and I discussed it: 'Doesn't that sound like gunshots?' But it couldn't be, we said."

She and three other homeowners did not want to be identified, saying they feared their tattooed and pierced 250-pound neighbor, whom they described as rude and surly in the best of moods.

Several months ago, one them questioned Yellen about the noise coming from his garage almost every afternoon.

"It was always the same," the man said, making rapid tat-tat-tat sounds with the tip of his tongue. "He got this close to me -- right in my face -- and said, 'Mind your own business.' "

During the investigation, Yellen took an undercover ATF agent into the garage and said that was where he test-fired the submachine guns he made by converting semiautomatic assault weapons with mail-order parts, according to the agent's affidavit.

"This is my shooting gallery," the agent said Yellen told him.

The agent said he paid Yellen $1,200 for an AK-47 that was offered with a loaded 40-round magazine and six loaded 30-round magazines. Yellen offered the agent two more submachine guns to do the killing, according to the affidavit.

Dicks, who lives in Osceola County, was charged with solicitation to commit murder. As of late Wednesday, he had not been booked at the Osceola County Jail, where he was to be held without bail.

A Disney employee since 1996, Dicks has been placed on administrative leave, Disney spokeswoman Kim Prunty said.

Yellen remains held without bail in the Orange County Jail on federal firearms charges.

State and federal laws prohibit felons from possessing firearms. If convicted of possession of a firearm, Yellen faces a minimum sentence with added penalties for possession of an unlicensed automatic weapon.