COLORADO SUSPECT ARRESTED IN A.V. IN CHILD SEX CASE.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Mistry is a surname, and may refer to:
This page or section lists people with the surname Mistry. Staff Writer A Colorado Colorado, state, United States Colorado (kŏlərăd`ə, –răd`ō, –rä`dō), state, W central United States, one of the Rocky Mt. states. man wanted on suspicion of child molestation Child molestation is a crime involving a range of indecent or sexual activities between an adult and a child, usually under the age of 14. In psychiatric terms, these acts are sometimes known as pedophilia. was taken into custody at a Palmdale Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. home, sheriff's officials said. Marco Rocha, wanted by the Lakewood Police Department in Colorado, was arrested shortly after 10 a.m. Monday in the 38000 block of Standridge Avenue where he was visiting friends with his pregnant girlfriend. Police in Lakewood said Rocha had promised to surrender before he fled. ``He agreed to come in for a booking,'' said Detective Phil Tenney of the Lakewood Police Department. ``He broke his promise.'' Colorado officials learned that Rocha may be in the Palmdale area and had several phone numbers of residences where he might be. With help from Palmdale deputies, a crisscross-cross directory and law enforcement technician See PC technician and software technician. Nancy Dopirak, the man was located and taken into custody without incident. A 24-year-old father of four, Rocha is accused of sexually assaulting a girl he baby-sat between 1996 and 1999. The allegations were reported to police last month by the girl's mother. The child is now 8. Since the child was not going to be in Rocha's care, detectives agreed to give him three days to take care of some personal business, including attempting to get back tuition For tuition fees in the United Kingdom, see . Tuition means instruction, teaching or a fee charged for educational instruction especially at a formal institution of learning or by a private tutor usually in the form of one-to-one tuition. he had paid for at a technical school. When Rocha failed to turn himself in, detectives learned he had left the state and got a $25,000 warrant for his arrest. Tenney said police believed Rocha had no intentions of surrendering and was working on changing his identity. ``He was hitting his friends up for money,'' Tenney said. Rocha is being held without bail on suspicion of sexual assault on a child in a position of care and sexual assault on a child at the Lancaster sheriff's station. |
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