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April 21, 2010

Collier Deputy Fired After Charges Of Molestation

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Allegations that a deputy molested a 15-year-old boy while on duty was enough to cost a Collier County law enforcement officer his job. Chuck Bullock allegedly preformed sexual acts on the 15-year-old boy twice in the past month and also threatened him if he told anyone. Bullock has been fired and charged with official misconduct and lewd and lascivious battery.

According to reports and a story from the Naples News Daily, an investigation into Bullock was launched in February after a bathroom disturbance in a Naples mall. Officers questioned a boy found with Bullock and at that point the teen leveled the allegations against Bullock. Bullock’s Florida Criminal Defense Attorney told the paper that his client denied all the charges filed against him. 

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March 17, 2010

Spring Break In Daytona Beach Off To A Disturbing Start

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Daytona Beach has been the spring
break capitol of Florida for a long time but a disturbing report by the
Associated Press today has to have some wondering if it is a safe
environment. According to the AP in just the first week of spring break
in Daytona Beach six rapes have been reported. Four of the alleged
sexual assaults took place behind the same beachfront restaurant.

Of the six reported rapes, two took place at a resort and spa and
the other four, as mentioned above, behind a popular restaurant. So far
just one person has been arrested in connection with a
rape. According to
police the number of rapes reported usually rises in the month of March
due to the amount of spring breakers in town. The AP reports there were
41 sexual assaults last year.

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March 17, 2010

St Pete Sexual Battery Charges Filed In Nursing Home Bathroom Assault

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A man who resides at the Heartland nursing home in St Pete is under arrest and has been charged with sexual battery. According to TBO.com Timothy Edward Julian was booked into
Pinellas County Jail after it was reported to police that he sexually assaulted a female resident in a bathroom at the St. Petersburg nursing home.

The incident took place earlier this week and according to reports Julian hit the 30-year-old woman on the head while she was using a bathroom at the nursing home. The assault was reported about an hour and a half later. Police found the alleged perpetrator in his room at Heartland when they arrived on the scene. He was being held on $20,000 bail.

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March 11, 2010

Sexual Battery Charges May Have Caused Spring Hill Man To Flee Brooksville

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A 31-year-old Spring Hill man may be on the run after learning he was wanted on 10 counts of
sexual battery with a child under 18. Javier Ramos-Roldan allegedly
sexually assaulted a teenage girl he worked with on numerous occasions. According to TBO.com the victim was 16 when the
assaults began and continued until she turned 17.

Ramos-Roldan is not a U.S. citizen and has family in Georgia.
Police report that he has no driver’s license or social security
information. He whereabouts are currently unknown. The police also
report that all his sexual assaults came against the same girl and some happened at their place of work. They also have said the
sex was not consensual.

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March 10, 2010

Tampa Sex Offender Back In Jail For Probation Violation

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David Lovette is back in jail after a probation violation in Tampa. The 50-year-old is charged with violating his probation for a sexual battery by not updating his new address on his driver’s license. Not having an updated address on a driver’s license is a violation of Lovette’s probation and a crime for sexual predators.

According to TampaBay.com Lovette ran when officers tried to arrest him. He allegedly refused an officer’s command to stop and was eventually shot with a Taser. Lovette was taken to Hillsborough County jail and charged with probation violation, failure to register as a sex offender and resisiting arrest without violence. There is no mention of whether he is being represented by a Tampa Criminal Attorney.

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March 8, 2010

Tampa Man’s Sexual Battery Conviction Upheld By Court Of Appeals

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Richard Chotiner had his bond revoked today after his sexual battery conviction was upheld in a Tampa Court of Appeals. The 49-year-old former nurse was convicted of sexually battering a mentally disabled man in 2007. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison but was out on bond while he case was being appealed.

Chotiner and his Tampa defense attorney were told that the 15-year sentence will be imposed as soon as the mandate arrives at his court. In the meantime the man’s bond was revoked and he was taken into custody. According to court records Chotiner became friends with a 23-year-old and lured him to his home where the sexual battery occurred.

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January 27, 2010

Was Tampa Sexual Predator’s Past Crimes A Motive In His Murder?

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Kim Wilmath of the St. Petersburg Times is reporting that two cousins have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of Miguel Antonio Gomez, a convicted sexual predator. Gomez was convicted in 1997 of sexual battery of a child under 16, false imprisonment of a child under 13 while committing sexual battery and attempted lewd and lascivious act on a child under 16. He also had a recent conviction on marijuana possession. It is unclear whether Gomez’s past crimes were a motive in his November 30 shooting death.

Deputies working the Hillsborough County case report that 22-year-old Christopher Rodriguez and his 16-year-old cousin Emanuel Rodriguez tried to rob Gomez in broad daylight as he was walking his dogs. The younger cousin shot Gomez twice in the midst of a struggle and then his older cousin fired two or three more shots into Gomez as he was lying in the street.

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January 27, 2010

Registered Sex Offender Arrested In Tampa On 69 Counts Of Accessing Child Porn On His Computer

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A 31-year-old man who was convicted of sexual battery in Pinellas County and served three years in jail is in trouble again. Stephen D. Olman was arrested in Tampa on 69 counts of using his computer for lewd and lascivious behavior. Olman was in jail from 1999-2002 on sexual battery charges and then in jail again from 2004-2007 for violation of probation.

Olman is now being held in Hillsborough County jail. His bail was set at more than a half million dollars. Police arrested him for downloading numerous pornographic images involving children according to TampaBay.com.

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January 14, 2010

USF Student Jailed On Sexual Battery Charges After Allegedly Raping Another Student In A Campus Dorm

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Wednesday morning a University of South Florida student woke up to find a man on top of her in her dorm room bed. According to the Tampa Tribune 23-year-old Samuel Cesaire, also a USF student in Tampa, was allegedly raping the woman in her bed. Cesaire has been arrested and charged with sexual battery and was taken to Hillsborough County Jail. According to records this was Cesaire’s second arrest in Tampa. He was charged in 2005 with using a forged bill or check.

According to reports, Cesaire was invited to spend the night in a Kosove Hall dorm room Tuesday by the victim’s roommate. The next morning when the woman woke up Cesaire was in her bed raping her according to the story. The victim pushed Cesaire off of her. The Bahama Bay Drive resident was arrested after midnight Wednesday.

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