VERO BEACH — A 32-year-old man faces four felony sexual battery charges after a 14-year-old girl told investigators he had sex with her dozens of times, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday.

Arrested Sunday, Dennis Ray Mitchell, of the 2800 block of First Street Southwest, called 911 and said he needed to turn himself in. Asked why, he said, “child molesting, I guess,” an affidavit states.
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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — A 20-year-old man told investigators he has had sex repeatedly with an elderly relative before he was caught, according to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.

Garrett Andrew Douglas of Vero Beach was charged with incest and attempted sexual battery on a mentally defective victim. He was being held at the Indian River County Jail in lieu of $15,000 bail.
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Brandon Wester

He is being held at the St. Lucie County jail on a sexual battery charge in lieu of $150,000 bail.

The woman told police she was at a bar at the Sandpiper resort on Wednesday night. She had ordered a Mai Tai, danced with two Club Med employees, and then received another cocktail she hadn’t ordered before talking with two golf maintenance workers. When she asked who had ordered her the drink, no one answered her, she said.

The next morning her son woke her up and she realized she wasn’t feeling well. After she noticed she was bleeding, she began to remember small snippets of the previous night, she told police. (more…)

Luis Gutierrez-Florez

STUART — A Martin County Sheriff’s deputy was arrested Friday on a charge of sexual battery after a woman accused him of making advances at her during a call.

Sheriff’s officials first learned about the allegation April 22, when the woman’s husband called to report that Deputy Luis Gutierrez-Florez raped his wife when he responded to a dispute involving the Palm City woman a week earlier.

Gutierrez-Florez, 37, denies the charges. He is being held at the St. Lucie County jail without bond after authorities arrested him at his Palm Beach County home.

“It’s embarrassing to the agency, it’s embarrassing to the profession,” Sheriff Robert Crowder said .

The woman told investigators she called the sheriff’s office April 16 to report her husband had stolen money from her purse.
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A Golden Gate man faces charges of raping a child after the 11-year-old girl reported the alleged abuse to her family.

Leroius W. Thal

Thal, 40, is being held without bond at the Martin County jail.

In August, the girl told Martin County Sheriff’s investigators that Thal had forced himself on her during several encounters that began last June.
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A 40-year-old Port St. Lucie man was arrested Thursday on charges of sexual battery on a child, according to an arrest affidavit released Sunday.

Walter James Geiser, address unknown, was arrested at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the 25 block of Orange Avenue in Fort Pierce on seven counts of sexual battery on a child, the affidavit said.

He remained in the St. Lucie County Jail on $300,000 bond Sunday.

According to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, the victim is now 17 and came forward with the information with her mother earlier Thursday. The mother told detectives she believed her daughter and that Geiser was a friend who previously lived with the family in Maryland and Florida.

According to the report, the victim said the abuse started when she was 7 or 8 years old and the last encounter occurred in June 2007. The victim said she did not come forward sooner with the information because Geiser had threatened her.

Detectives asked the victim to call Geiser, who allegedly admitted over the phone to the sexual abuse, the affidavit said. The call was recorded by the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, the report said.

By Nadia Vanderhoof, TCPalm.com

Gregory White

Gregory V. White, 43, offered to trade sex acts with a 3-year-old girl he knows in exchange for sex with the older girl, St. Lucie County Sheriff’s investigators said. Detectives later learned that the younger girl was actually 2 years old, according to a sheriff’s report. (more…)

A former Stuart masseur walked out of the Martin County jail Friday after accepting a plea in a case in which he was accused of drugging two female clients before performing sex acts on them.

Daniel Fuksman, 41, was scheduled to stand trial Tuesday on two charges of sexual battery. But on Friday, Circuit Judge Sherwood Bauer sentenced him to the year he had served in jail.

“Daniel has and continues to maintain his innocence, but the offer was one he thought he should take,” his attorney Jeff Smith said.

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