A suspected pedophile joked that he hoped he wasn’t being set up by predator hunter Chris Hansen as he arranged to meet a 14-year-old girl — just to find Hansen waiting for him with police.

Tyler Devault, 33, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, was one of a “Nasty Nine” nabbed in a major sting operation across Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia that will be featured on the series “Takedown with Chris Hansen,” Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler revealed in a video statement Monday .

While speaking online with an undercover officer he thought was a young teen, Devault said he didn’t “want to see Chris Hansen from the show ‘To Catch a Predator’ there waiting for him,” the sheriff said.

Devault — who pretended to be 19 — arrived for the planned, pervy rendezvous with a “piping hot” pizza — just t

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