Benjamin Rzadca – Member of BoyChat – Repeat Sex Offender

A registered sex offender is behind bars for an alleged incident in a men’s locker room. Florissant police say the man was trying to draw the attention of several young boys.

Benjamin Rzadca, 27, of Black Jack, faces felony charges for sexual misconduct involving a child.

Florissant Police Chief William Karabas said eight boys, ages nine through 11, along with two men, reported the incident. Karabas said witnesses reported seeing Rzadca inappropriately touching himself in the James J. Eagan Center locker room Jan. 13. The man did not say anything, witnesses said.

They boys had just returned to the locker room from swimming, Karabas said.

Florissant police later caught Rzadca a few blocks away.

“He did make some tacit admissions,” Karabas said.

Karabas said he is unfamiliar with Rzadca’s criminal history, but he did confirm the suspect is a registered sex offender.

Police call the incident isolated. But even Florissant’s mayor wants to do more to protect children and adults who use the facility.

“We have to use the presumption of not being found guilty,” Mayor Robert Lowery said. “But nevertheless I have eight children that said he did this.”

Later this month, Florissant city council will take up a measure proposed by the mayor to tighten security at the facility.

Rzadca is being held on $35,000 bond in St. Louis County.

Alex Montoya – Repeat Sex Offender

A 42-year-old Clovis man was arrested Monday afternoon and charged with kidnapping and rape after holding a Clovis woman against her will and raping her repeatedly, according to an arrest affidavit filed Tuesday in Curry County Magistrate Court. Alex Montoya turned himself into police Monday afternoon and is being held on a $75,000 bond, according to the affidavit and jail officials. Montoya admitted to police he forced his former girlfriend to have intercourse and threatened to kill her because he was jealous and wanted to degrade her, according to the affidavit, The victim said she had consensual relations with him at his residence and she went to sleep, the affidavit said. She told police around 3 a.m. Monday she woke when she felt him tying her hands behind her, the affidavit showed. The woman told officers Montoya raped her multiple times at his home and took her out into the county in his vehicle, raping her several more times, according to the affidavit. The woman said Montoya threatened to kill her, the affidavit said, and told her he had a gun. She said Montoya released her around 10 a.m. and she sought help. Montoya is a registered sex offender and served 12 years for a 1982 rape conviction, records show.

Alex Montoya – Repeat Sex Offender

A 42-year-old Clovis man was arrested Monday afternoon and charged with kidnapping and rape after holding a Clovis woman against her will and raping her repeatedly, according to an arrest affidavit filed Tuesday in Curry County Magistrate Court. Alex Montoya turned himself into police Monday afternoon and is being held on a $75,000 bond, according to the affidavit and jail officials. Montoya admitted to police he forced his former girlfriend to have intercourse and threatened to kill her because he was jealous and wanted to degrade her, according to the affidavit, The victim said she had consensual relations with him at his residence and she went to sleep, the affidavit said. She told police around 3 a.m. Monday she woke when she felt him tying her hands behind her, the affidavit showed. The woman told officers Montoya raped her multiple times at his home and took her out into the county in his vehicle, raping her several more times, according to the affidavit. The woman said Montoya threatened to kill her, the affidavit said, and told her he had a gun. She said Montoya released her around 10 a.m. and she sought help. Montoya is a registered sex offender and served 12 years for a 1982 rape conviction, records show.

Kevin Baker – Repeat sex offender pleads guilty to murder

A registered sex offender pleaded guilty Monday to suffocating an escort service worker he called to his apartment.

Kevin Baker, 39, faces 20 years in prison when he is sentenced in March for killing 24-year-old Jillian Flagg last October.

The Amherst woman was found bound and suffocated in Baker’s second-floor Buffalo apartment after her screams led to a 911 call. When police knocked on Baker’s door, he jumped out of a window. He was arrested a short time later in a nearby yard.

Prosecutors said Flagg was fully clothed and there was no evidence of a sexual assault. At the time of his arrest, Baker told police he was under the influence of cocaine.

Baker, who initially was charged with second-degree murder and attempted sex abuse, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in state Supreme Court.

Baker served a brief jail term in 2006 for a 2005 incident with an 11-year-old girl. Authorities said Baker was drunk when he dragged the girl off a couch and straddled her. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor unlawful imprisonment and was sentenced to one year in jail. As a result, he was listed as a Level 2 sex offender on the state Sex Offender Registry.

David Harnett Raped 4 year old Child

A Rotterdam paramedic is behind bars, accused of raping and molesting a 4-year-old child.

31-year-old David Harnett of Westcott Road was arrested and charged Tuesday night after police investigated a complaint from Child Protective Services. Harnett was employed as a per-diem paramedic for the Town of Rotterdam, since July of 2006. Before that, he was a full-time civilian paramedic in Rotterdam. Police tell us he will now be fired.

Harnett remains in the Schenectady County Jail without bail.

David Harnett Raped 4 year old Child

A Rotterdam paramedic is behind bars, accused of raping and molesting a 4-year-old child.

31-year-old David Harnett of Westcott Road was arrested and charged Tuesday night after police investigated a complaint from Child Protective Services. Harnett was employed as a per-diem paramedic for the Town of Rotterdam, since July of 2006. Before that, he was a full-time civilian paramedic in Rotterdam. Police tell us he will now be fired.

Harnett remains in the Schenectady County Jail without bail.

Ransome Lee Moody – Repeat Sex Offender

In October, probation officials went to court, asking Holzberg to lift the order, saying no program exists for someone like Moody, who officials say “continues to present a high degree of risk of sexually assaultive behavior.” Officials consider him so dangerous that Moody has been denied admission to sex-offender programs in Connecticut and in seven other states. Counselors have testified that he’s virtually untreatable.

A convicted rapist who was released from prison in August after serving 30 years for three rapes in Middletown was back in custody Monday, with bail set at $1 million.

Details of the arrest Saturday of Ransome Lee Moody, 50, by New Haven police were not released Monday, but law enforcement sources said Moody was charged with disorderly conduct and violation of probation.

A Superior Court judge during a hearing Monday in New Haven raised Moody’s bail to $1 million. He was being held late Monday at the New Haven Correctional Center. He had been staying at a drug-treatment program in the Fair Haven section of New Haven.

Since his release, Moody has been the subject of a handful of frustrating court hearings aimed at dealing with housing and treatment issues for him since probation officials briefly lost track of him in Middletown on Sept. 26.

Moody, a career criminal, was not arrested after the September incident. Police found him at a Middletown hospital, where he had sought help for suicidal thoughts. He told one official that he wanted to “end it” by either hurting himself or someone else. But the search for Moody sparked concern among law enforcement authorities familiar with Moody’s brutal crimes and his history of probation violations.

After getting out of prison, Moody, who is indigent, lived in homeless shelters in Hartford and New Haven. He has not been admitted to a mental health facility because no psychiatric evidence exists that he is a danger. And probation officers have not been able to find a residential sex offender treatment program for Moody, an order imposed on him by Judge Robert L. Holzberg during a probation violation hearing in July 2004.

In October, probation officials went to court, asking Holzberg to lift the order, saying no program exists for someone like Moody, who officials say “continues to present a high degree of risk of sexually assaultive behavior.” Officials consider him so dangerous that Moody has been denied admission to sex-offender programs in Connecticut and in seven other states. Counselors have testified that he’s virtually untreatable.

At a Nov. 15 court hearing in Middletown, Holzberg ordered that Moody remain in the New Haven drug rehabilitation program under 24-hour supervision while officials explored a transfer to a sober house.

At a follow-up hearing Dec. 19, a probation officer testified that four sober houses in New Haven and Hartford refused to admit Moody. Management at the homes said they were not equipped to deal with registered sex offenders, and residents of the homes, who are recovering substance abusers who work and share housekeeping tasks, voted against taking Moody in.

The judge urged officials to arrange mental health counseling and line up financial assistance for Moody as soon as possible. Officials have said they are working to get Social Security or rental assistance benefits for Moody so he can live independently.

It was not known late Monday how Moody’s latest arrest — his fourth violation of probation — would affect the recent court hearings. The judge on Monday transferred the New Haven case to Middletown, where Moody is scheduled to appear on Thursday.

Ransome Lee Moody – Repeat Sex Offender

In October, probation officials went to court, asking Holzberg to lift the order, saying no program exists for someone like Moody, who officials say “continues to present a high degree of risk of sexually assaultive behavior.” Officials consider him so dangerous that Moody has been denied admission to sex-offender programs in Connecticut and in seven other states. Counselors have testified that he’s virtually untreatable.

A convicted rapist who was released from prison in August after serving 30 years for three rapes in Middletown was back in custody Monday, with bail set at $1 million.

Details of the arrest Saturday of Ransome Lee Moody, 50, by New Haven police were not released Monday, but law enforcement sources said Moody was charged with disorderly conduct and violation of probation.

A Superior Court judge during a hearing Monday in New Haven raised Moody’s bail to $1 million. He was being held late Monday at the New Haven Correctional Center. He had been staying at a drug-treatment program in the Fair Haven section of New Haven.

Since his release, Moody has been the subject of a handful of frustrating court hearings aimed at dealing with housing and treatment issues for him since probation officials briefly lost track of him in Middletown on Sept. 26.

Moody, a career criminal, was not arrested after the September incident. Police found him at a Middletown hospital, where he had sought help for suicidal thoughts. He told one official that he wanted to “end it” by either hurting himself or someone else. But the search for Moody sparked concern among law enforcement authorities familiar with Moody’s brutal crimes and his history of probation violations.

After getting out of prison, Moody, who is indigent, lived in homeless shelters in Hartford and New Haven. He has not been admitted to a mental health facility because no psychiatric evidence exists that he is a danger. And probation officers have not been able to find a residential sex offender treatment program for Moody, an order imposed on him by Judge Robert L. Holzberg during a probation violation hearing in July 2004.

In October, probation officials went to court, asking Holzberg to lift the order, saying no program exists for someone like Moody, who officials say “continues to present a high degree of risk of sexually assaultive behavior.” Officials consider him so dangerous that Moody has been denied admission to sex-offender programs in Connecticut and in seven other states. Counselors have testified that he’s virtually untreatable.

At a Nov. 15 court hearing in Middletown, Holzberg ordered that Moody remain in the New Haven drug rehabilitation program under 24-hour supervision while officials explored a transfer to a sober house.

At a follow-up hearing Dec. 19, a probation officer testified that four sober houses in New Haven and Hartford refused to admit Moody. Management at the homes said they were not equipped to deal with registered sex offenders, and residents of the homes, who are recovering substance abusers who work and share housekeeping tasks, voted against taking Moody in.

The judge urged officials to arrange mental health counseling and line up financial assistance for Moody as soon as possible. Officials have said they are working to get Social Security or rental assistance benefits for Moody so he can live independently.

It was not known late Monday how Moody’s latest arrest — his fourth violation of probation — would affect the recent court hearings. The judge on Monday transferred the New Haven case to Middletown, where Moody is scheduled to appear on Thursday.

Carl Leone – Total lack of Remorse

A parole officer, who has prepared reports on thousands of criminals before their courtroom sentencing, said Carl Leone set himself apart and was “certainly unique” for his expressed lack of remorse.

“He did not take full responsibility for his actions,” Michelle Pope testified Thursday at the Windsor businessman’s dangerous offender hearing.

The Crown is seeking a dangerous offender label for the Windsor businessman, who pleaded guilty last spring to 15 counts of aggravated sexual assault for engaging in sexual relations without telling his partners of his HIV-positive status.

Five of those 15 women were infected with the virus that can lead to AIDS.

In jailhouse interviews last summer with Leone, Pope said the impression Leone left was one of “sharing of the blame with others.”

Pope said Leone told her the local health unit was also to blame for his engaging in unprotected sex, “for not properly counselling him about his HIV status.”

Pope also interviewed others, including Leone’s father Reno, who told her of a conversation he had with his son in which the son said, “I might as well die,” and told his father that the Leone family could then sue a number of parties, including Deb Bennett, the health unit’s director of health protection.

In an interview the head of the health unit countered Leone’s suggestions that he wasn’t counselled.

“There’s no question he was counselled ( by the health unit)… and that was clearly described in court,” medical doctor of health Allen Heimann said.

Under cross-examination by Leone’s lawyer Andrew Bradie, Pope admitted she made notations that the “offender expressed remorse” and “accepts full responsibility” during one interview, although those notes go on to say those expressions were “tempered by shared blame.”

Another witness told the hearing an obvious parole condition, given his convictions, would be to “report all female relationships” with his parole officer.

If designated a dangerous offender, Leone would be eligible to have his case reviewed, with the possibility of supervised release, by the end of 2012.

Carl Leone – Total lack of Remorse

A parole officer, who has prepared reports on thousands of criminals before their courtroom sentencing, said Carl Leone set himself apart and was “certainly unique” for his expressed lack of remorse.

“He did not take full responsibility for his actions,” Michelle Pope testified Thursday at the Windsor businessman’s dangerous offender hearing.

The Crown is seeking a dangerous offender label for the Windsor businessman, who pleaded guilty last spring to 15 counts of aggravated sexual assault for engaging in sexual relations without telling his partners of his HIV-positive status.

Five of those 15 women were infected with the virus that can lead to AIDS.

In jailhouse interviews last summer with Leone, Pope said the impression Leone left was one of “sharing of the blame with others.”

Pope said Leone told her the local health unit was also to blame for his engaging in unprotected sex, “for not properly counselling him about his HIV status.”

Pope also interviewed others, including Leone’s father Reno, who told her of a conversation he had with his son in which the son said, “I might as well die,” and told his father that the Leone family could then sue a number of parties, including Deb Bennett, the health unit’s director of health protection.

In an interview the head of the health unit countered Leone’s suggestions that he wasn’t counselled.

“There’s no question he was counselled ( by the health unit)… and that was clearly described in court,” medical doctor of health Allen Heimann said.

Under cross-examination by Leone’s lawyer Andrew Bradie, Pope admitted she made notations that the “offender expressed remorse” and “accepts full responsibility” during one interview, although those notes go on to say those expressions were “tempered by shared blame.”

Another witness told the hearing an obvious parole condition, given his convictions, would be to “report all female relationships” with his parole officer.

If designated a dangerous offender, Leone would be eligible to have his case reviewed, with the possibility of supervised release, by the end of 2012.