He was meeting her because Creek Catchers set him up online by having him believe he was talking to a 15 year old girl. No possibility of a mistake. It wasn't creek catchers that gave out the wrong name. The RCMP then compounded the problem by not commenting.
Probably. But we can never exclude other possibilities.
I'm an undercover cop, go online, chat under the guise of a fifteen-year-old girl, and someone who claims to be a grown man wants to meet up with me. He describes what he looks like ad his name. I contact my teem, and we set the trap. Heck, maybe even hire a fifteen year owl high school kid on weekends as a prop. The man gives identifies himself by a certain name and describes his appearance.
A few minutes later, someone who fits the description arrives, meets the girl, asks her name, she gives it, he identifies by his name, and the cops pounce.
A few minutes later, another girl arrives by the same name as that girl, and another man. That girl was going to meet a man who was a friend of the family who was to give her a ride to see other family in another town. The man is the one the cops intended to snatch.
Oops!
Highly unlikely, I know.
Might happen once in a thousand busts. But afte the police has been doing it for years, the statistical probability of this happening increases. Again, highly improbable, too much coincidence to be easily believable, but within the realm of possibility. The police always needs to cover its bases on these matters.
That's why the police would have the man clarity why he wants to meet her. Plus, once they meet, the police might even want to allow her to hop in his car with a set of questions to ask to be sure she is the one he intended to pick up and not coincidentally there to pick up some other girl who is now looking for him. She'd want to clarify that he is the one who had sent the text messages and not someone else because he shares a computer with someone else, and clarify what it is he wants. She could be wired with recording devices, so as soon as the police have what they want, the unmarked police car following them turns on the syren, pulls them over, then makes the arrest.
If while they're chatting in the car, they both sound confused, he starts feeling uncomfortable as he figures he picked up the wrong person, and immediately drives her back to drop her off where he'd picked her up, or, if she already said what the man she intended to meet was looking for sex and she looks young, he immediately brings her to the police, or returns to pick up the girl he intended to pick up first and then they all go to the police station together, then maybe the police could pull him over right away, explain the situation, retrieve the police girl, and bring her back to try to hool up with the other man whom she was supposed to meet.
Life can through strange and unexpected curve balls sometimes. That's why we have to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. And that's why the police need to know how to collect evidence. They are useless if they don't know how to operate recording devices, or how to go undercover, collect proper and thorough witness statements, keep an open mind as to other possibilities, and unless protecting a person's safety comes before making an arrest (which could happen in some cases), wait till they have the proof it takes before making an arrest.
If the polcie must intervene to protect someone prematurely, it might make sence even then to not make an arrest right away if public safety is not immediately at risk, so they can try to hook hi again.
Creep catchers does a lot of work on the internet before arranging a meeting. The guys here in Alberta have outed a number of people. It's pretty easy to tell by the guilty looks and how quick they want to get away and hide their identity these a$$holes are pedos.
I'm not familiar with Creep Catchers. But if they do a better job than the local police (and I have no experience with the RCMP, so can't comment on that), then thank goodness for Creep Catchers. Maybe they can teach the police a thing or two about how to attach recording devices to their bodies, how to go undercover, how to operate a recording device, how to bring witnesses with him to back him up, etc.
From the little that I have read, it appears that Creep Catchers do in fact do that.