{"id":233700,"date":"2010-01-26T14:48:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T19:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01287715e5eb970c"},"modified":"2010-01-26T16:16:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:16:46","slug":"sex-offender-arrested-for-allegedly-soliciting-children-at-downtown-l-a-housing-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/233700","title":{"rendered":"Sex offender arrested for allegedly soliciting children at downtown L.A. housing complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01287716710e970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lapdmug180\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01287716710e970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01287716710e970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Lapdmug180\"><\/img><\/a> Los Angeles police detectives have arrested a known sex offender who allegedly solicited youngsters at the William Mead Homes project near downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Julio Gonzales, 41, of San Gabriel, was arrested Monday for annoying a child under 14 and soliciting an act of prostitution, both misdemeanor crimes.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis man is a sex registrant for indecent exposure,\u201d said Lt. Paul Vernon. \u201cThe one sole incident he\u2019s charged with occurred at the William Mead Housing Project. There\u2019s a good chance he\u2019s been to other neighborhoods, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Vernon released a photo of the man and asked anyone with information on other crimes involving him to contact the LAPD detectives.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon said a mother first reported that a man had approached her 12-year-old daughter a year ago and offered the girl $100 for oral sex.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe little girl was so innocent, she did not understand the euphemism the suspect used,\u201d Vernon said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were not able to identify the suspect until last week, when he was seen again. A resident saw the car, recognized the man and wrote down the license plate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a surprise he was a sex registrant,\u201d Vernon said.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales was booked on an arrest warrant and released in lieu of $40,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged crimes were misdemeanors, so police needed to identify the suspect and get a warrant from a judge in order to make an arrest.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cOtherwise, police would have had to catch him in the act, or a witness would have had to apprehend him and make a private person\u2019s arrest,\u201d Vernon said. \u201cIt was probably better for Gonzales the police got him and not the residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact\u00a0 Det. Josh Riggs at (213) 972-1235. During non-business hours, call (877) LAPD-24-7.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Winton<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: LAPD<\/em><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles police detectives have arrested a known sex offender who allegedly solicited youngsters at the William Mead Homes project near downtown. Marco Julio Gonzales, 41, of San Gabriel, was arrested Monday for annoying a child under 14 and soliciting an act of prostitution, both misdemeanor crimes. \u201cThis man is a sex registrant for indecent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}