Tag: Sex Predator
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 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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
A former Marion County Jail corrections officer who resigned in 2011 after he smuggled marijuana into the jail has been arrested.
According to inside sources, Joseph Charles Jones, 38, was arrested and charged with Having Sex with a Minor.
The 16-year-old...
Ocala, Florida -- A violent, career criminal was arrested by Marion County Sheriff's deputies Tuesday and charged with Sexual Assault with a Deadly Weapon on a Victim 12 or Under.
The victim told police that Michael Dangelo Mike, 33, came into...
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...
A Marion County man accused of luring an 8-year-old girl into his home with a bucket of chicken and then sexually assaulting her.
The incident occurred in July of 2016, at 18 Bahia Loop, Ocala.
The victim told authorities that she...
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...
An Ocala woman was arrested after detectives were provided with video evidence which showed the woman had sex with juvenile boys.
According to the arrest affidavit, Maria Lynn Baker, 28, called the Ocala Police Department to report crimes that two juvenile boys...
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...
Marion County -- In the state of Florida, all sex offenders are forbidden to live within 1,000 feet of any school, daycare or park, or so the state would like to have residents believe.
The state law governing where sex...
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Ocala, Florida -- In November 2014, there were 159 sexual offenders and predators required to register in Marion County, Florida. During that time, only 149 complied with state requirements; leaving 10 unaccounted for.
Eight of the...