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 Tindall had touched him in an inappropriate manner. At that time, Tindall was placed […]
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 child sex offender who is now facing additional felony charges. Jose Melchor Martinez AKA Jose Luis […]
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 with the children. Cooper was charged with four counts of Sexual Assault on a […]
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 kissed her on the mouth. The victim stated that as he was kissing her, Lopez […]
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 school since her arrest. She has since been banned from entering school property. According to […]
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 February 10. Pacana was arrested on February 20 and charged with Lewd and Lascivious Behavior. […]
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 County Sheriff’s Office on February 10. On February 16, MCSO investigators responded to Kimberly’s […]
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 caller reported a shooting. While investigating, officers learned of a sexual battery allegation against 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 that Andrew Antonio Davila, 20, had multiple pornographic photographs depicting young children in his possession. […]
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 1 Locksmith, located at 5555 South Pine Avenue, Ocala, was arrested and charged with 11 counts of […]
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 deputies, when the girl returned home, the mother noticed “hickies” on her daughter’s neck. The mother then drove […]
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 County Sheriff’s Office responded to Ocala Springs Elementary, located at 5757 Northeast 40th Avenue Road, and made […]
Ocala, Florida — A convicted child molester, being transported to prison, was attacked by other inmates on the transport van on November 3, 2014. Ocala Police Officers responded to the scene. Edward Rogalski, 58, is a Florida Corrections inmate, and was being transported by U.S. Corrections employees to the Charlotte Correction Institute in a white […]
The call has been redacted to protect the victims. Holly Hill, Florida — “I got him in a bloody puddle for you officer. He is knocked out on the floor for you.” That is what a father told a 911 operator after he beat a man unconscious that he caught molesting his 11-year-old son. According […]
Ocala, Florida — Joseph James Doolittle, 27, of Silver Springs, has been charged with Lewd and Lascivious Molestation-Victim Under 12. The 9-year-old victim told detectives that Doolittle put his hand in her panties and touched her vagina. The victim stated that she told Doolittle to stop, at which time he tried to force his […]
Belleview, Florida — Mark Anthony Bryant, 31, of Burlington, Massachusetts, has been charged with having inappropriate contact with a juvenile. Detectives interviewed the victim who said the sexual contact with Bryant happened during a 2-year period, from the age of six until she was eight, in Belleview, Florida. Bryant left Marion County and was […]
Napa, California — A man and woman are under arrest after the woman’s three-year-old daughter, Kayleigh Slusher, was found dead in their apartment. Sara Krueger, 23, and her boyfriend Ryan Warner, 26, were arrested after Napa Police put out an alert on Saturday evening, after the body of the three-year-old was found. On Sunday […]
Florida — Florida currently has the highest refuge rate for sex offenders, and all too often sexually violent predators slip through the cracks of our criminal justice and civil commitment systems; they are arrested and released, just to commit the same crime. It’s about time the government protects law abiding citizens and not the […]
Ocala, Florida — On Tuesday, January 14, 2014, Detective Jorge Fernandez arrested Duane Ernest Adams,54, a school teacher with Francis Marion Military Academy who served in the Army for 20 years, for one count of Interference with Child Custody. Adams had lied to the parents of a 15-year-old runaway, to officers and detectives at […]
Polk County, Florida — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office served two search warrants at two different addresses on October 10, 2013, ending in the arrests of two men. The first search warrant was served at 141 Fernery Road Apt D7, Lakeland. Deputies developed information that someone at the residence offered to share child pornography […]