A Tucson Police officer was arrested on suspicion of D.U.I. early Saturday morning, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman.
Neal Ronald, 38, was stopped for a moving violation near West Ina Road and North Shannon Road at approximately 1:45 a.m. on May 16, said Deputy Dawn Barkman in a news release Tuesday.
Anyone who doesn’t feel like going to school can take a tip form Vail high school seniors.
A number of the students are accused of spraying graffiti on the bus fleet’s windows – writing “Class of ’09″ – and deflated at least two tires on each vehicle.
All 76 buses were damaged, according to a report in the Arizona Daily Star.
The buses will still run, albeit at least an hour later than usual, while they are being fixed up.
Tires need repair or replacement and, of course, the graffiti has to be washed off.
School buses won’t get much respect if they trek around town looking like sheeny wagons.
I have mixed feelings on this one, but, if the kids are caught, they should have some type of punishment. But I have mixed feelings on what it should be.
Perhaps a dose of summer school, or a summer cleaning, painting and revitalizing school grounds before they are handed their diploma.
Too harsh? Laugh it off? Let it go?
What do you think?
Comment below or e-mail rynski@tucsoncitizen.com (rynski@tucsoncitizen.com)
Link to story: www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/293490.php
Teachers are supposed to be our role models. Kids should admire them, look up to them, learn from them.
Not sleep with them.
The latest steamy scandal involves a 36-year-old Tucson teacher, Joseph Massey, who is charged with two counts of sexual conduct with a minor, according to a KVOA report. She was 15.
The relationship reportedly started at Utterback Middle School.
Gross.
If any of my middle school teachers, even the younger ones, would have made a pass at me when I was 15 I probably would have kicked them in the shins.
Besides, when you’re 15, anyone over the age of 16 is considered “old.” Anyone above age 20 is “ancient” and those older than 30 might as well start digging their graves.
Disgusting images aside, it’s also gross when people who are put in trusted positions – such as teachers, clergy, law enforcement officers, doctors – abuse that trust.
If we can’t trust our teachers to guide us with good decisions, who can we trust?
Read story: www.kvoa.com/global/story.asp?s=10374569
Frank Stout (right) and his neighbor Megin Goetz comfort his dogs CoCo (left), Soju (background) and Saki after they were rescued by firefighters from a house fire on South Palm Springs Drive on Thursday. The fire spread to a neighboring home. The cause is under investigation.
A woman was injured Thursday morning in a house fire, but a firefighter was unscathed by debris from the home’s collapsing roof.
Four dogs found in the backyard of the East Side home escaped serious injury, Tucson fire Capt. Tricia Tracy said. A fifth dog that had been missing was found unharmed late Thursday morning running around the yard.
The pets may have saved themselves by fleeing through a “doggy door” leading to the backyard. Tracy could not tell whether the dogs were singed or just sooty from the fire’s smoke and debris.
Tracy couldn’t provide more information on the injured 64-year-old resident because of a federal patient confidentiality law.
The fire, reported at 8:29 a.m., spread from the home in the 2800 block of South Palm Springs Drive to a neighboring house, Tracy said. The cause is under investigation.
Tracy said the firefighter appeared to be unharmed, but he was sent to a hospital for a precautionary exam. None of the other roughly 50 firefighters sustained injuries.
The fire gutted the first home, causing an estimated $300,000 damage, she said. A sprinkler system in the second home halted the progress of the blaze, which caused about $50,000 of damage there.
Firefighters use a water cannon on a house fire in the 2800 block of South Palm Springs Drive early Thursday.
Tucson firefighter Kevin Unwin (right) hands Saki to the dog's owner, Frank Stout. Saki was rescued Thursday morning from a fire in the 2800 block of South Palm Springs Drive.
Eastside house fire
A woman was injured and five dogs were rescued in an early morning house fire on South Palm Springs Drive.
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Blanche White (left) visits with laundromat owners Michael and Clarisse Kostolny on Thursday at the Northgate Laundromat & Cleaners, 3993 E. Grant Road. White is president of the Oak Flower Neighborhood Association, which will be honoring the laundromat for neighborly service.
Some people who live near the intersection of East Grant Road and North Alvernon Way used to avoid shops there.
“People want to shop near their homes,” said Blanche White, 73, president of the Oak Flower Neighborhood Association, one of four neighborhoods bordering the intersection.
But “in one neighborhood meeting, someone said, ‘I don’t feel safe there, so I drive to another place farther away.’
“That was really eye-opening, I think.”
Since that meeting some months back, the four neighborhood associations – Oak Flower, Garden District, Palo Verde and Dodge Flower – have worked with area businesses and organizations to make shopping a safer and more pleasant experience.
The associations are honoring seven with Business Good Neighbor Awards at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Tucson Botanical Gardens Pavilion, 2150 N. Alvernon Way.
The Botanical Gardens is one of the honorees for offering its facilities for neighborhood meetings and special events.
The others are Specialists in Dermatology, Northgate Laundromat & Cleaners, Fry’s, Emmanuel Baptist Church, Sign-A-Rama and Emerge!
Those honored will get a certificate and a placard proclaiming they make good neighbors to place in their front windows.
“We have a lot of neighborhood businesses that are deserving,” White said. She added that more awards will be forthcoming.
The two businesses in her neighborhood, Specialists in Dermatology and Northgate Laundromat & Cleaners, both had good reason to nab the awards.
The dermatology practice worked with residents even before the office was built a few years back. Some employees have attended neighborhood cleanups.
The laundromat has increased security by making sure a worker is always present and posting a security guard at night.
“One of the problems we have is the panhandlers that hang out in the parking lot,” White said. “Businesses have made more efforts to put security guards out, to walk people to their cars if they don’t feel safe. It’s improved considerably.”
The entire area has improved, said Tucson Police Department Capt. David Neri, who is in charge of the midtown division.
The Good Neighbor Awards are just one phase of a larger program, the Alvernon-Grant Initiative. Those involved include the associations, area businesses, Tucson police, City Council Wards 3 and 6, and Pima County Supervisor Districts 3 and 5.
Efforts began about four years ago, Neri said. One of the most successful phases started in February 2008.
“In our first monthly report, we removed in excess of 40 weapons off the street,” Neri said. A number of arrests and confiscated narcotics also were part of the effort.
“It’s far safer now than it has ever been.”
Progress has been marked from February 2008 to February 2009 with a 60 percent reduction in burglaries, auto thefts and all types of fraud, leading to a 13 percent overall dip in crime.
“It’s really a great project,” said George Pettit, spokesman for Councilwoman Karin Uhlich’s Ward 3 office. “People are working hard trying to turn around the neighborhood. It’s really a feel good kind of thing.”
Laundry attendant Lynda Rae Cody helps customer Omar Daniel Cruz at Northgate Laundromat & Cleaners.
Warning period will be Monday through Sunday
After some false starts, Pima County’s 10 speed limit enforcement camera systems will be activated Monday and used to issue warnings to violators through Sunday.
After that, accused speeders with vehicle license plates caught on camera who can be positively identified will be mailed tickets by American Traffic Solutions Inc. of Scottsdale, the county’s contracted vendor for the program.
Drivers at the camera locations will notice strobe lights flashing starting Friday during a three-day test period of the camera system. No warnings or tickets will be issued during the test phase.
The speed limit enforcement program was approved by the Pima County Board of Supervisors this year as a pilot program that will be reviewed later in the year.
The camera locations were selected by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department based on incidences of speeding and crashes.
The 10 sites accounted for 26 percent of all speeding tickets issued by the Sheriff’s Department in 2008 and more than 4,100 crashes over the past three years.
Activation was delayed for about two months while the vendor fine-tuned the system for accuracy.
The locations are:
• North La Cholla near West Sunset Road
• South Mission Road near West Grubstake Drive
• East Ina Road near North Camino de las Candelas
• North Swan Road near East Calle Barril
• East Valencia Road near South Wilmot Road
• West Ruthrauff Road near West Rillito Street
• West Valencia near South Camino de la Tierra
• South Alvernon Way near South Station Master Drive
• East River Road near North Country Club Road
• South Nogales Highway near East Hermans Road
Two prisoners serving life sentences at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Tucson tried to escape Thursday but were caught on the grounds, a state Department of Corrections news release said.
Inmates Joshua Aston, 22, and John Wells, 48, have been transferred to maximum security at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Eyman in Florence, according to the release.
The pair set off an alarm near a perimeter fence about 9 p.m. Wednesday, according to DOC. By 3 a.m. Thursday, both had been caught.
Arizona Department of Corrections investigators are trying to piece together how Aston and Wells got as far as they did in the escape attempt, said Bill Lamoreaux, a Corrections spokesman.
Aston is serving a life sentence for murder.
Wells has been imprisoned here for 11 years after being transferred from a Maryland prison, where he was serving time for three armed robberies and three escapes.
Aston was admitted to the Department of Corrections in May 2007, the statement said. He was found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder by a Maricopa Superior Court jury in March 2007 for the killing of Pedro Corzo.
Corzo, 35, a manager for Del Monte Fresh Produce, was killed in January 2004 while visiting remote farms in the western part of the county.
He was driving on a road between Dateland and Harquahala Valley when he encountered a roadblock of boulders, according to sheriff’s deputies.
When he got out of his car to clear the rocks away, he was shot by Justin Harrison. Aston, Harrison’s cousin, also was accused of shooting Corzo.
Investigators believed the shooting was part of a bizarre odyssey in which Aston, accompanied by Harrison and a younger brother, left their homes near St. Louis and drove to Arizona with an apparent intent to engage in crime. They were arrested near Billings, Mont., a few days after the killing.
In May 2005, Harrison, 26, was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in a deal to sidestep the death penalty.
Aston, who was 16 when Corzo was killed, escaped the death penalty in 2005 when the U.S. Supreme Court banned death sentences for people who commit murder while juveniles.
Details of Wells’ crimes were not available, said Mark Vernarelli, a spokesman for the Maryland prison system.
Vernarelli said he did not have information on why Wells was transferred here, but Vernarelli said Wells had been in prison on and off in Maryland, serving time on a variety of convictions since he was 19 years old.
Maryland routinely transfers prisoners to other states for various reasons under what are called interstate compacts, Vernarelli said.
The Arizona Republic contributed to this article.
Tucson police found 39-year-old Julio Alonso Carreon slain in a South Side driveway early Friday morning, spokesman Sgt. Fabian Pacheco said. Homicide detectives are investigating.
Tucson Police Department was responding to reports of gunshots when they found Carreon in the 1400 block of East Ganley Terrace Drive, near South Park Avenue and East Bilby Road, Pacheco said.
Carreon was found lying the the dirt driveway of a home minutes after police received the reports, about 2:20 a.m., he said.
Pacheco said Carreon appeared to have sustained gunshot wounds, and the home he was lying near was not his own.
A man, a woman and a child were inside the home but unharmed, Pacheco said. Police are trying to establish the relationship between Carreon and the home’s occupants.
The shooting does not appear to be random nor gang-related, he said, though no motive had been established as of 7:30 a.m. Friday morning.
At that time, police were in the process of getting a search warrant for the home and canvassing the neighborhood for witnesses.
Two vehicles were reported leaving the home after shots were fired, Pacheco said, though descriptions were conflicting.
Police had not identified a suspect as of 7:30 a.m.
Gerardo Lopez
A convicted sex offender was arrested Wednesday night on charges of sexual assault.
Tucson police officers caught Gerardo Lopez, 54, as he was assaulting a 34-year-old woman in a desert area northwest of Interstate 10 at South Park Avenue, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a department spokesman.
Lopez, a level 3 sex offender, was convicted of attempted sexual conduct with a minor stemming from an incident in 1986, according to an online search of state corrections and sex offender data.
Lopez lives near the area where the incident took place, according to state sex offender records.
Pacheco said that police received a 911 call from a cell phone about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. He said operator could hear the sounds of a woman being assaulted and dispatched patrol officers to search the area near the interchange.
Police found Lopez sexually assaulting the woman within minutes, Pacheco said.
The woman told detectives that she was walking through the desert when Lopez confronted her. She managed to call 911 but was not able to speak to the operator.
Lopez has been charged with three counts of sexual assault, one count of sexual abuse and one count of kidnapping.
Victim unhurt in predawn incident on North Monal Lisa Drive
Sheriff’s deputies arrested three men in connection with a predawn home invasion Wednesday on the Northwest Side.
The arrests came after deputies traced the suspects to an apartment in the 7500 block of North Mona Lisa Drive on the Northwest Side.
After obtaining a search warrant, deputies searched the apartment and found some of the victim’s property, said Deputy Dawn Barkman, a sheriff’s spokeswoman.
Deputies arrested Spenser E. Andrews, 20; Gerardo Monteverde, 22; and his 19-year-old brother, Xavier Monteverde, Barkman said.
The Monteverde brothers were each booked into jail later Wednesday on single counts of aggravated robbery, armed robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and kidnapping charges.
The burglary accusation is in connection with entering a building with the intent to commit a felony, Barkman said.
When they were booked, the brothers listed addresses on North Jensen Drive, Gerardo Monteverde in the 7800 block and his brother in the 7600 block, a jail records clerk said.
But, she said, they also each listed a previous address in the 7500 block of North Mona Lisa Road.
Andrews, who also listed an address in the 7500 block of North Mona Lisa, was booked into jail about 2:30 p.m. on suspicion of crimes similar to those on which the Monteverdes were being held, a jail clerk said.
According to Barkman, a resident of a complex in the 2600 block of West Ina Road was awakened shortly before 4 a.m. by the noise of someone breaking into his apartment.
One of the three intruders hit the resident with a pistol, and then the assailant and his companions made off with a television, a safe, computer equipment and weapons, Barkman said.
No shots were fired, Barkman said.
Closing arguments Thursday in malpractice case
The uncle of Christopher Lambeth said “knives and throwing stars” were confiscated from Lambeth’s room in the last few months before he murdered his grandparents with a knife.
Their bodies were so disfigured that their coffins were closed to mourners, according to testimony Wednesday in a medical malpractice-wrongful death case under way in Pima County Superior Court.
The civil lawsuit, filed by Lisa Lambeth, who is Christopher Lambeth’s mother, and her sister Karen McCollum, blames COPE and the Community Partnership of Southern Arizona for allegedly failing to provide proper mental health care for Lambeth.
On April 10, 2005, Lambeth attacked his grandparents Carl and Patricia Gremmler with a knife. He is serving two concurrent life sentences at the Arizona State Hospital for the murders.
COPE was Lambeth’s mental health provider for two years prior to the stabbings.
The partnership is the nonprofit agency that oversees publicly funded mental health providers in southern Arizona, including COPE. Lambeth received subsidized care from COPE because he was found to be disabled by serious mental illness.
The uncle, Mark McCollum, told a jury that Lambeth “locked horns” with his grandfather, Carl Gremmler, 76, in the weeks before the murders and exhibited “very bizarre and violent behavior” but McCollum didn’t tell his wife, or alert authorities or Lambeth’s mother.
Lambeth was 20 when sheriff’s deputies found him in bed at his grandparents’ Rillito home and discovered their bodies. They had been dead for two days.
McCollum, who said he spent most weekdays at the Gremmlers helping to restore cars and do chores for his in-laws, said Gremmler was “the head of the family” and it was not McCollum’s place to call authorities about his concerns about Lambeth.
“That was his (Gremmler’s) call,” he said.
He also said he didn’t tell his wife, Karen, about Lambeth’s “increasingly bizarre behavior” because “I didn’t want to upset her any further than she needed to be.”
The suit named Lambeth’s psychiatrist, Dr. Virgil Hancock III, as a defendant.
He was a contract provider for COPE but not an employee and he settled with the Gremmlers’ two daughters in October 2008, according to court records.
Details of the settlement were not publicly disclosed.
Hancock testified as a witness in the civil damage case Wednesday.
He said that if he had been told “of possible danger or a safety issue” by Lisa Lambeth or other family members, “I would have needed to address that.”
“Any information that showed the Gremmlers were at risk would have caused me to do something,” he said.
He said he was never told they might be in danger.
Lambeth had been treated for mental illness with medication for at least two years before the killings. Based on his monthly visits with a psychiatrist and a COPE case manager, he appeared not to need 24-hour care, according to court documents.
Lisa Lambeth said in testimony earlier this week she blames COPE and CPSA for not finding a residential placement for her son, who took multiple psychiatric medications for “schizoaffective and bipolar disorders,” court records show.
Lisa Lambeth’s two children, Christopher and his sister, lived with the McCollums for four years at their mother’s request, following their father’s accidental death, according to testimony in the case.
His mother took her own apartment during that time, according to Mark McCollum’s testimony.
McCollum said Lambeth never displayed any symptoms of mental illness or violent tendencies during the period Lambeth lived with his aunt and uncle.
But in the months before the stabbings, McCollum said he saw Lambeth repeatedly strike a tree trunk with a hockey stick while speaking incoherently.
He also said he saw a bruise on Carl Gremmler’s face that Gremmler said was the result of Lambeth hitting him, but he did not call authorities to report the alleged assault.
He said Gremmler was deeply religious and “feared no evil and no man,” and felt that “God would take care of things.”
But he said Patricia Gremmler, 72, was so fearful of her grandson that she carried pepper spray in a bathrobe pocket at all times and hid pepper spray on a bookshelf in her home to defend herself from him.
McCollum said the couple never slept at the same time so one of them could observe Lambeth.
McCollum said Lambeth usually spent weekdays at his grandparents and weekends with his mother.
But on the weekend the Gremmlers were killed, his mother traveled to Mesa, leaving him with her parents on a Friday, and never spoke to them again.
Lambeth had complained that he did not like staying in the rural community, according to court documents.
McCollum said the Gremmlers required Lambeth to stay in his room whenever Carl Gremmler left the house.
He said Lambeth would knock holes in the walls of the room and kick them while he was confined.
Closing arguments in the case are set for Thursday.
Lambeth
The mother of Christopher Lambeth, who killed his grandparents – her parents – in 2005, said she never filed a grievance against COPE or his psychiatrist while they provided medical care to her son for about two years before the killings.
She is suing them in Pima County Superior Court, claiming wrongful death and malpractice. The case, in Judge Carmine Cornelio’s court, began last week.
Under cross-examination Tuesday by defense attorneys, Lisa Lambeth said she waited for months for a residential placement from COPE for her son while he washed his hands 10 times a day, talked to himself, paced back and forth incessantly and used “special hand signals.”
She blames his psychiatrist, Dr. Virgil Hancock III, a COPE employee, and the behavioral health provider for her parents’ April 10, 2005, killings at the hands of her son.
Christopher Lambeth, now 24, was taking lithium and other drugs to control symptoms of his mental illness, including psychosis.
Lisa Lambeth and her sister Karen McCollum filed the lawsuit, claiming negligence was a cause of the violence that ended the lives of Lisa’s parents, Carl and Patricia Gremmler.
Carl was 76 and Patricia 72 when they were stabbed by Lambeth, who is serving two concurrent life terms in the Arizona State Hospital.
During testimony in the civil suit Tuesday, Lisa Lambeth said her son told her he killed his grandparents because “he thought they were trying to tell him what to do. He really can’t articulate that very well.”
She said she feels no responsibility for her parents’ deaths.
Attorneys for COPE and the nonprofit Community Partnership for Southern Arizona, which oversees COPE and other behavioral health providers in southern Arizona, said Tuesday there were several things she could have done to help her son and protect her parents.
They asserted she is partly responsible for what happened.
She knew, she admitted, that her son would sometimes not take his medications and that she had called police because of Christopher’s alleged menacing and punching holes in the wall.
Before Lambeth left for Mesa for several days to be with her husband, she did not make sure her son’s blood level for lithium was tested to see if he was properly medicated, even though she knew it was necessary, she said during questioning.
She admitted under cross examination that she did not advise her parents before they took Christopher Lambeth into their home for the weekend that the blood test needed to be done to make sure his medication was at a therapeutic level.
“She wasn’t sufficiently concerned,” said CPSA attorney Marshall Humphrey.
Lambeth said she attended her son’s monthly appointments with his psychiatrist and asked each time for her son to be placed in a residential facility where he could get full-time care.
She never filed a petition with the court to have her son committed to a hospital for psychiatric observation after she thought he was a danger to himself or others, she conceded. She also said she did not bring him to an emergency room for an evaluation when he seemed to be agitated and uncooperative. But she did call 911 to have authorities take him to a hospital after one incident.
In the months before the killings, Christopher Lambeth was held for about a day in a psychiatric facility and then was released to his family, according to court records.
Defense attorneys accused her of seeking revenge with the lawsuit, quoting her from her therapist’s records: “I will bring them down.”
Lambeth responded, “It’s not revenge. I have a desire for justice. I feel they should be held accountable.”
She said she left her son with her parents during the week while she worked full time in human resources and kept him at her home on weekends.
Defense attorneys said that as a human resources specialist, she should have known that she had other avenues besides waiting for COPE to find her son a residential placement.
She could have gone over the psychiatrist’s head and complained to his supervisors but she did not, or look for a placement herself.
“I trusted him,” she said of the psychiatrist.
“I’ve lost my mom and dad and son. This has been ripped from me by two organizations who didn’t care about us,” she said. “I feel they are responsible for the death of my mom and dad.”
Officer Carmen Figueroa a 5-year veteran
A state Department of Public Safety officer who shot at and missed a man Monday afternoon has been identified.
Officer Carmen Figueroa, a five-year DPS veteran, is assigned to highway patrol duties in the Tucson area, said Officer Quentin Mehr, a Tucson-based DPS spokesman. Figueroa was not injured, Mehr said.
Mehr said Tuesday he had no new information on the shooting.
Events leading to the 1 p.m. shooting started with an attempt to stop the man, who was driving a Chevrolet Suburban on Interstate 10, Mehr said Monday.
The man fled, eventually getting off the interstate at the South Park Avenue interchange and stopping at a motel in the 1000 block of East Benson Highway.
There, he and Figueroa got in a confrontation, the details of which were unavailable. Figueroa fired one shot at the man, who ran away.
Area law officers searched the area for several hours without finding the man, Mehr said.
The man was described as about 5 feet 6 inches tall, wearing black denim shorts and a gray tank top.
Mehr asked anyone spotting the man to call 911or 88-CRIME. He warned people not to approach the man, as he is considered dangerous.
Pima County sheriff’s detectives are investigating the death of Arthur Huerta Nabor, 30, whose father and brother said they restrained him facedown on a couch until he became unresponsive Saturday, according to court documents.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, said Deputy Dawn Barkman, a sheriff’s spokeswoman.
Deputies were called to a domestic disturbance at the family home in the 5700 block of South Bryant Stravenue, near Alvernon Way and the Benson Highway, at 3 a.m., she said in a news release.
According to a search warrant return obtained Tuesday by the Tucson Citizen, sheriff’s investigators took drug paraphernalia, a “green leafy substance,” “various unknown prescription medications/narcotics,” and a small plastic bag “with powder residue” from the home as evidence.
They also took a plastic bag containing “unknown pills” from a brown purse and “unknown pills” from a closet in the house.
Family members told paramedics Nabor was using crack cocaine and fighting with family members, according to the search warrant papers.
Paramedics could not revive Nabor, according to those documents.
The search warrant request states that Nabor may have used a frying pan and a water pitcher as weapons.
Nabor was held on a couch in the living room, according to documents in the case. A detective described the incident as “somewhat of a prolonged event.”
Deputies said they believed the death may have been caused by “fighting,” according to the documents.
A kitchen blender and cell phones were also taken as evidence.
No one has been charged in the death. The investigation is continuing.
Autopsy drug test results can take up to six weeks.
A sex offender, on probation for conduct with and exploitation of a minor, has been arrested again on child-sex charges, Tucson police said Tuesday.
Jacob T. Osterkamp, 28, of the 11400 block of West Green Desert Road was being held in the Pima County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail on a charge of attempting to lure a minor for sexual exploitation, police and jail authorities said.
He also was being held without bail on probation violation charges in connection with earlier convictions in Tucson for sexual conduct with a minor and for sexual exploitation of a minor, a jail clerk said.
Osterkamp is listed on the state Department of Public Safety’s sex offender Web site.
Police began their investigation May 1 when a woman reported unsolicited, obscene text messages, police spokesman Sgt. Fabian Pacheco said.
The woman told police the man texted that he was looking for a friend and asked if the recipient was a man or a woman.
The woman, who has teenage children, replied that she was a minor. Soon, she began getting messages of a sexual nature, Pacheco said in a news statement. The man gave his age and asked the recipient to meet him.
Detectives used the woman’s cell phone to text message the suspect. Detectives also got a subpoena for the man’s cell phone and identified him as Osterkamp.
Wednesday, Osterkamp was arrested at his home and booked into jail, Pacheco said.
