Recent Posts in Sex Crimes Category
Posted on May 19, 2013 By Eric Matheny
A 28-year veteran of the Miramar Police Department was convicted this past week of one count of lewd and lacivious behavior. Initially charged with two counts, the jury convicted the former police ...
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Posted on Apr 17, 2013 By Eric Matheny
A Davie police officer is about to begin his second trial after his first trial resulted in a mistrial due to allegations that a jury conducted their own research during deliberations using the ...
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Posted on Jan 30, 2013 By Eric Matheny
A 7-year veteran of the Miami Police Department has been arrested for one count of armed kidnapping, and one count of sexual battery. The officer was arrested after an Internal Affairs investigation. ...
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Posted on Jan 28, 2013 By Eric Matheny
After pleading guilty to multiple counts of sexual battery and lewd and lascivious battery upon allegations that he molested several children over the course of the past 30 years, a former Broward ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2012 By Eric Matheny
A Davie police officer charged with sexual battery is about to go on trial for a second time after his first trial ended in a mistrial. The mistrial was declared because a juror admitted to conducting ...
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Posted on Dec 13, 2012 By Eric Matheny
A Miami-Dade teacher has been taken back into custody after his bond was revoked for allegedly contacting the victim in his case after a stay-away order had been issued by the court. The teacher had ...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2012 By Eric Matheny
A 27 year-old Miami man has been charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child for allegedly touching two young children inappropriately. The incident allegedly occurred at a ...
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Posted on Sep 10, 2012 By Eric Matheny
A Broward County school employee has been charged with exposing himself to a minor. The specific charges are indecent exposure, which is a misdemeanor, and lewd and lascivious exhibition, a ...
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Posted on Sep 3, 2012 By Eric Matheny
Florida law requires sex offenders - whether convicted of their crimes within the State of Florida or outside the State of Florida - to register with local law enforcement agencies. Florida law ...
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Posted on Aug 20, 2012 By Eric Matheny
FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement), the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department arrested a Miami-Dade Schools employee this ...
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Posted on Oct 16, 2011 By Eric Matheny
A band booster at Cypress Bay High in Weston has been arrested on charges related to engaging in lewd acts with teenage boys during sleepovers at his Weston home, according to the Broward ...
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Posted on Jun 30, 2011 By Eric Matheny
It took a Miami-Dade jury about two hours to find a 28-year-old man guilty of sexual battery and having sexual contact with a minor. He was also found guilty of theft and false imprisonment, but those ...
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Posted on Jun 29, 2011 By Eric Matheny
A former Miami-Dade police officer accused of lewd or lascivious battery of a child 12 to 16 has accepted a plea agreement that will keep him out of state prison. On Tuesday, the 41-year-old former ...
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Posted on Jun 5, 2011 By Eric Matheny
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office announced last week that a man accused of lewd or lascivious molestation of a child, who was arrested on those charges earlier this year, would not be prosecuted ...
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Posted on Feb 5, 2011 By Eric Matheny
News website NBC Miami reports that a Miami-Dade police officer has been arrested. The 24-year old officer is being accused of lewd and lascivious molestation of two teenage girls whom the officer ...
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Posted on Jan 20, 2011 By Eric Matheny
In Florida, it just became harder to be a registered sex offender. Today's Sun Sentinel told the story of a small Florida town that has effectively banned registered sex offenders from residing within ...
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Posted on Nov 29, 2010 By Eric Matheny
A person who commits sexual battery upon a person 12 years of age or older without that person's consent, when the alleged victim is physically helpless to resist, commits a felony of the first ...
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Posted on Oct 13, 2010 By Eric Matheny
Every good criminal defense attorney knows when to fight and when to fold. However, a large part of what we do is negotiate plea bargains that will serve our clients' best interests. A good plea ...
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Posted on Apr 9, 2010 By Eric Matheny
Just being accused of a sex crime can ruin your life. You can lose your job. You can be kicked out of school. Your marriage and family life can be destroyed. The stigma of a sexually-motivated offense ...
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