Major Juan Garcia, 40, a respected police commander, may have solicited sex from an undercover police office. Prosecutors are weighing whether to charge him with soliciting sex during a weekend sting. The 18-year veteran of the Miami Police Department has been reassigned to desk duty pending an investigation by the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office.
Antonio Centeri, a 44-year-old Westhampton Beach special education teacher, was arrested on charges he arranged to have sex with who he thought was a 13 year old girl he had met in an America Online chat room. Instead of talking to a teen, Centeri was actually talking to Suffolk Det. Rory Forrestal of the Computer Crime Section. He allegedly arranged to meet the supposed teen at a Pathmark parking lot off the Montauk Highway in Shirley for the purpose of having sex and was arrested after police placed a young
Seven boys aged 12 and 13 were arrested for groping 12 year old girl in what the Board of Ed is considering a terrifying rerun of the Central Park wilding incident. The sixth grade victim filed a police complaint saying she was in the school yard when a boy she knew called her over. According to the New York Post, the boy was joined by six others and they turned her upside down, tried to remove her blouse and fondled her breasts, buttocks and vagina over her clothes. The boys
Wallace Bibbs, a 60 year old church deacon and retired school principal, had an argument with his 13 year old
granddaughter and she angrily stalked out of the house. Days later he saw his granddaughter struggling to get out of a car to escape from one of the men who had held her for days and sexually abused her in a cheap motel room outside of Atlanta. Bibbs pulled out his Taurus 9 mm and shot off a round. The driver, Rodricus Martin, 31, is in Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital
A proposal from the Virginia Sentencing Commission would adjust sentences for sex offenders according to a point scale based on factors such as education, age and where the original crime took place. According to the Associated Press, it would quadruple the maximum recommended sentence for sex offenders who score poorly and recommend incarceration for some less serious offenders who likely would not go to prison under current guidelines.
Ronald Jackson, a 41 South Ozone Park man, was arrested in connection to a five month investigation into the rape of an 11 year old girl. Police uncovered his whereabouts with the help of office workers who traced his calls using *69. Police aren’t sure of his identity because he carried multiple forms of identification with different names. He was living with his girlfriend who is the victim’s aunt, in a two-family Lakeview house. The girl was raped by the suspect at least six times between December and March. The