Dalton police officer charged with child molestation
Bryan reserve officer charged with indecency with a child, 58 counts of child pornography
Daniel Guadalupe: Retired NYPD officer accused of raping teenage girl for years in Palm Beach County
Las Cruces cop gets lengthy prison sentence for sex with minor
Irwindale Cop Pleads No Contest To Sex Charges Involving 2 Teenage Girls
Dalton
police officer charged with child molestation
Jon Gargis
The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
A recently sworn-in Dalton
police officer is off the job following his arrest Thursday on a child
molestation charge.
The Georgia Bureau of
Investigation arrested Officer Daniel Tolbert just after 5 p.m., Dalton police
spokesman Bruce Frazier said Thursday night. The arrest came nine days after
the department placed Tolbert on administrative leave immediately after being
informed by the GBI and the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office that he was under
investigation on suspicion of child molestation.
“I am very disappointed to hear
about this allegation, and upset about the discredit this will surely bring on
our department and officers,” Dalton Police Chief Jason Parker said in a news
release Thursday. “We would never condone or support the kind of behavior that
would warrant this charge. The men and women of this department hold ourselves
to a very high standard of behavior, and we know the community we serve expects
our behavior to be beyond reproach.”
Though police officials did not
have specifics on the allegations against Tolbert, Frazier said the alleged
incident did not occur while Tolbert was on the job. At the time of his
suspension, he was in the department’s field training program, and as a
trainee, he was never unsupervised or alone while on duty. Probationary
trainees, Frazier added, ride with an experienced training officer for at least
four months after completing the police academy.
Tolbert, 32, completed the
police academy in September and was sworn in as an officer on Sept. 16. Though
Tolbert is currently on administrative leave, the city will begin the
termination process immediately, Frazier said.
Prior to joining Dalton’s
police force, Tolbert served in the U.S. Army, the U.S. Border Patrol in
California and was a jail deputy with the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office,
according to the police department’s blog.
Former
Bryan reserve officer charged with indecency with a child, 58 counts of child
pornography
By ANDREA SALAZAR
andrea.salazar@theeagle.com |
A former Bryan reserve police
officer was indicted Thursday on 58 counts of child pornography and one count
of indecency with a child.
Dennis Fraley, 62, was among 34
people indicted by a Brazos County grand jury during its bi-monthly meeting to
determine whether there is enough evidence to move forward with prosecution.
Texas Rangers and Brazos County sheriff’s deputies took him into custody
Thursday evening.
Fraley was out on $45,000 bail
at the time. He had been arrested in September on three counts of possession of
child pornography, which is a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years
in prison, after a friend noticed inappropriate photographs on Fraley’s phone
while helping him install an application, according to the probable cause
affidavit for the arrest.
Fraley resigned from the Bryan
Police Department following his September arrest, during which he told
investigators he had “arrested people like him” and that he “had been sick for
a couple of years,” according to the court document.
The grand jury also indicted
two men Thursday accused of robbing a College Station Holiday Inn in November
2012.
Denzel Neal, 21, and
Christopher Elmore, 22, were each charged with one count of first-degree felony
aggravated robbery in connection with the 2012 incident in which the men
reportedly emptied a hotel cash register after threatening the clerk with a
gun, according to the probable cause affidavit for their arrest.
The clerk told police the men
had asked for jumper cables before one revealed a pistol in the waist of his
pants when the clerk said he could not leave the front desk, investigators said
in the report.
Both admitted to robbing the
hotel two years ago while on their way to Austin, police said.
Other offenses on this week’s
indictment list included state jail felony drug charges and second-degree
felony aggravated assault and burglary.
Daniel
Guadalupe: Retired NYPD officer accused of raping teenage girl for years in
Palm Beach County
A retired NYPD officer is under
arrest, accused of raping a teenage girl over several years in suburban Boynton
Beach.
Daniel Guadalupe, 56, is facing
charges of sexual battery, lewd or lascivious molestation and false
imprisonment. He is being held on $250,000 bail at the Palm Beach County Jail.
According to an arrest
affidavit, Guadalupe sexually assaulted the now-17-year-old victim beginning
when she was in eighth grade, and continuing though the summer between her
freshman and sophomore year.
The victim told investigators
that the situation escalated from inappropriate touching to Guadalupe forcing
her to have sex with him. She said that she has been suppressing her memories
of the abuse.
She described to investigators
about one incident in which he held her down and sexually assaulted her, during
which time she struggled to get away. She recalled he said to her afterwards,
"Did you really have to put up that much of a fight, it doesn't really
have to be that way," and to "just get over it."
She said that over the years
she would give in to his demands just to get him to stop.
On Wednesday, one of the
victim's relatives confronted Guadalupe in a controlled phone call with PBSO
investigators present. On the call he made numerous admissions and apologized
for getting "carried away playing around."
Former
Las Cruces cop gets lengthy prison sentence
LAS CRUCES (AP) – A former Las
Cruces police detective faces a lengthy prison term after being sentenced in a
sex case involving minors.
State District Judge Fernando
Macias on Monday sentenced former Detective Michael Garcia to 30 years in
prison but suspended 10 years of the sentence.
Garcia was convicted of
multiple counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor.
He was initially arrested in
August 2013 and accused of sexually assaulting a minor and then arrested again
in September 2013 on additional charges involving another victim.
Garcia has already received a
nine-year federal sentence in a case involving a teenage girl who was an intern
with the Police Department in 2013.
The sentences will run at the
same time, with Garcia serving the federal sentence first.
Former
Irwindale Cop Pleads No Contest To Sex Charges Involving 2 Teenage Girls
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A
former Irwindale police officer pleaded no contest Friday to sex-related
charges involving two girls in the department’s Explorer Program.
Daniel Camerano, 27, pleaded no
contest to three felony counts, including using a minor for sex acts, oral
copulation of a person under 16 and contact with a minor for sexual offense.
Los Angeles Superior Court
Judge Georgina Torres Rizk ordered Camerano not to have any contact with the
two girls.
Camerano, who is free on bond,
is expected to be sentenced Jan. 20 for two years and eight months in state
prison and to be ordered to register for the rest of his life as a sex
offender.
Three other charges filed
against him earlier this year are expected to be dismissed when he is
sentenced.
Camerano, who served as an
adviser to the department’s Explorer Program, resigned from the police
department in June after eight years on the force.
Prosecutors say Camerano began
a sexual relationship with the 14-year-old girl between May 2009 and December
2010 and sent suggestive text messages to 17-year-old girl in November 2012.
Both girls were in the department’s Explorer Program.
The charges against Camerano is
the third case against a former Irwindale police officer in just over a year.
Former officer David Paul
Fraijo pleaded no contest Oct. 3 to one count each of oral copulation under
color of authority and sexual battery by restraint involving a woman he pulled
over during an October 2012 traffic stop. He is facing up to nine years in
state prison, with sentencing set Jan. 12.
Another former officer, Dennis
Alva, pleaded no contest last September to a felony grand theft charge. He was
sentenced in November 2013 to one year in county jail and ordered to repay
$250,000 in cash to his elderly father.
