Tag: sex offender
A 20-year-old was arrested Tuesday and charged with Lewd and Lascivious Behavior by an Adult Over 18.
On December 18, Jerome Merritt was hanging out in a "she shed" at a friend's house who was celebrating turning 21.
By the early...
Dunnellon, Florida -- A Romeo Elementary para-professional was arrested Thursday after a young student said he had touched her.
The investigation began on November 20, 2020, after a female student came forward and told school officials that Juvenal Gomez, 58,...
Florida --This Florida corrections officer will never see the light of day.
At approximately 9:18 p.m. on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, the Citrus County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) arrested 41-year-old Kenneth Slanker of Inverness, Florida.
Slanker was arrested after an initial investigation...
Marion County, Florida -- On October 5, 2020, Stacie Schmerling, an attorney with Justice for Kids in Fort Lauderdale, filed a lawsuit against Kids Central, INC (KCI) and The Centers, INC, (TCI) for failing to protect a 3-week-old who...
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,...
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper was arrested Thursday after investigators learned that he had been having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female.
Trooper Christopher Delrusso, 26, met the victim in March after investigating a crash she was involved in....
Eric Thanal Lutterloah, 50, is wanted for committing a sexual battery while armed.
According to a press release, Lutterloah held a woman at knifepoint while he sexually battered her.
Lutterloah is also a registered sex offender. In 2003 he was arrested...
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...
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...
A man who was in possession of child pornography on his cellphone was arrested and charged with Enticement of Minor for Indecent Purposes.
Cameron Michael Brewer, 24, who was wanted on a warrant out of North Carolina, was arrested at...
West Milton, Ohio -- Police Officer and Navy Veteran Kevin C. Wright, 32, has been charged with three felony counts of rape on a child under 13.
Wright was arrested and transported to the Miami County Jail Monday following the...
An Ocala man was arrested Saturday after an investigation revealed that he had sex with a mentally challenged 16-year-old female.
The teen, who lives in Gainesville, stated that Marcus Lemar Brantley, 32, would drive from Ocala to visit her. She...
On Monday, November 4, 2019, the Polk County Sheriff's Office concluded a month-long special operation to identify members of the community who possessed and shared child pornography.
The operation, code name, "Guardians of Innocence IV: Fall Haul," was carried out...
A Lowell corrections officer, who is one of four officers being investigated for beating and paralyzing an inmate, has been arrested for child molestation.
Keith Mitchell Turner, 34, was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of Lewd or Lascivious...
A former New Smyrna Beach High School teacher was arrested Thursday and charged with Unlawful Sexual Activity with a Minor.
The student is a 16-year-old male.
According to reports, Megan Parris, 28, turned herself in after a judge signed a warrant...
Marquise J. Woolbright, 26, made a plea deal and received a sentence of three years probation after committing several violent crimes.
In 2017, Woodlright's girlfriend had driven to visit him and caught him red-handed cheating with another woman.
As his girlfriend...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A Southeast Texas businessman was convicted in federal court Tuesday of sex trafficking of a minor female and other related charges.
This investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI),...
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...