Tag: child molester
Angel Manuel Acosta-Cruz was captured in East Chicago, Indiana, and extradited back to Marion County to face molestation charges.
Acosta-Cruz had been on the run for approximately two years.
According to the arrest affidavit, in 2018, authorities received information that Acosta-Cruz...
Ocala Police Department detectives arrested a Vanguard High School teacher's assistant after they were notified that he had been having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student.
Nicholas Elder, 31, has been charged with Unlawful Sex with a Minor.
On August...
Ocala police arrested an Ocala man after UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital reported that he had been accused of sexually assaulted a little girl.
The victim, who is under 12, told police that the man, identified as Mark Antonio McClean,...
Volusia sheriff’s deputies have arrested a Daytona Beach correctional officer with Tomoka Correctional Institution following accusations that he molested a child.
and charged him with lewd and lascivious molestation on a child victim.
Anthony Checchi, 35, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and...
Belleview, Florida -- Belleview Police Department officers arrested Colin Guy, 49, of Ocala on Thursday after he was accused of molesting a little girl.
Guy is charged with Sexual Assault on a Child Younger than 12 and Lewd and Lascivious...
A Lake County deputy sheriff was arrested Tuesday following an investigation that began in March after a teen victim came forward and filed a complaint with the Clermont Police Department.
The female victim stated that she was riding in Rodriguez's...
Citrus County Sheriff's Office deputy, Charles Wigglesworth, was arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and charged with two counts of Capital Sexual Battery of a Child Under 12 and three counts of Lewd and Lascivious Molestation of...
Jesse Holden Otero, 32, was arrested Tuesday after officials say he molested a 4-year-old girl.
According to reports, the mother had dropped off her two children -- her son, 2, and daughter, 4 -- at Otero's home so she could...
A music teacher who has worked at Belleview Elementary School since 2002 has been arrested.
Kevin Wayne Tindall, 47, was charged with Lewd and Lascivious Molestation of a Child Under 12.
The male student came forward on January 9 and stated that...
NEW ORLEANS -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers arrested one of ERO’s Most Wanted fugitives Wednesday during a targeted operation in Central Louisiana that resulted in the capture of a convicted...
Dunnellon — A 52-year-old man has been arrested for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl and an 11 year-old-boy.
Authorities say the lascivious behavior took place at a home in Dunnellon.
Robert Belton Cooper is accused of having numerous graphic sexual encounters...
A 21-year-old man remained behind bars Monday on a $ 21,000 bond after he was accused of molesting a 10-year-old girl.
The victim told her family that while Jibreel R. Lopez was at their house, he had picked her up and...
Marion County Public Schools Public Information Officer, Kevin Christian, said, Katie Carsey, 36, a Fort McCoy School teacher’s assistant who arrested on September 27, for molesting a former student, abandoned her job.
Christian said that Carsey had not contacted the...
Marion County Sheriff's detectives believe that Dunnellon High School teacher Chester Pacana had inappropriate contact with other juveniles.
The teen came forward with the allegation on February 8, 2016. The incident was reported to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office on...
Dunnellon, Florida -- A Dunnellon High School teacher is under arrest after a 15-year-old female said he touched her breast during class.
The teen came forward with the allegation on February 8, 2016. The incident was reported to the Marion...
Ocala, Florida -- An alleged shooting led to the arrest of a sexual predator who is infected with HIV.
Officers with the Ocala Police Department were conducting an investigation near the 2800 block of West Silver Springs Boulevard after a...
Ocala, Florida -- An Ocala man was arrested Thursday after Ocala police were notified by Homeland Security that he had been exchanging nude photos with a 13-year-old boy in New Jersey.
During the course of the investigation, it was discovered...
Ocala, Florida -- A local locksmith was arrested after a mother discovered that her now 13-year-old daughter had been sexually abused by the 45-year-old.
The Marion County Sheriff's Office says that John Henry Rapp, a locksmith from 2 in 1Â Locksmith,...
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Ocala, Florida -- A felon was arrested and charged with Lewd and Lascivious Battery on a Girl Younger than 12.
The victim had been reported as a runaway by her mother the day before the incident.
According to...
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Ocala, Florida -- A Citra man is behind bars in Marion County after the Department of Children and Families received notification that an 11-year-old female had been sexually abused and forced to use drugs.
In October 2014, the Marion...