MIAMI SPRINGS, Fla. – Police arrested a 35-year-old Hialeah guy Wednesday after accusing him of providing vape cartridges to a Miami Springs heart schooler in trade for sexual favors; government say all of it came about after he encountered her and a chum at a meals retailer.
According to an arrest file from the Miami Springs Police Department, Moises Ledon first met the 11-year-old sufferer and her buddy, additionally 11, on Oct. 9 whilst they have been on the Colon Supermarket in Hialeah.
The pair have been dressed in their Miami Springs Middle School uniforms, the file states. The meals retailer is positioned at 405 E. Okeechobee Road, only some hundred ft clear of the varsity around the Miami River canal.
According to police, Ledon presented himself to the pair and requested them in the event that they smoked, and, after the sufferer answered that she smoked vapes, advised her that he may supply her vapes if she gave him her telephone quantity.
The lady’s buddy gave Ledon a faux quantity, however the sufferer gave him her actual one, the file states, main him to touch her later that day and ship a video clip showing his stock of vape cartridges and hashish, police stated.
She answered to the video through texting “bet” after which requested “but how old was u thinkin I was?”
“Okd (sic) enough. LOL,” police say he spoke back, telling her he used to be 25.
But she would it seems that state she used to be no longer sufficiently old, the file states. Police stated she requested Ledon to bet her age; he to start with guessed 17, then, after being despatched “no” affixed with a crying emoji and announcing, “im in middleeee,” he guessed 13.
“2 years younger (crying emoji),” the file states she spoke back. Police stated he answered, “OMG,” “LOL” and “let me kno bb.”
Two days later, police stated he introduced to take her to a film, which she declined, announcing she “can’t be hanging out w ppl who are 25,” however persisted texting about negotiating a value for the Fume vape cartridge.
Police stated the woman advised him that she does no longer have any cash and would “do whatever.”
Ledon advised her, “u cute” and the woman later spoke back, “yea im cute but rmb (remember) im 11,″ saying she didn’t care what he wanted her to do, but “yk (you know) chill,” the file states.
He later spoke back, government stated, through sending a photograph of a lady with 5 sizzling canines in her mouth, which the woman took to imply oral sex; he would ascertain that’s what he sought after, in accordance to his arrest file.
Police stated he organized to drop off the vape at Stafford Park, positioned throughout from the varsity at 501 East Drive, and, after faculty set free, the sufferer and two of her classmates noticed Ledon pressure up in his Toyota truck and throw a bag out the window into the park.
The arrest file states the bag contained “a Fume, edible marijuana and marijuana buds.” Police stated the woman took out the Fume and gave the weed to her buddy, who threw it out.
Authorities stated one of the vital sufferer’s buddies tipped off a Miami-Dade Schools police officer assigned to the varsity about what came about. That officer would flip the case over to Miami Springs police, who, with permission of the sufferer’s mom, took the woman’s telephone and assumed her identification so as to keep in touch with Ledon.
Police stated Ledon texted the woman’s telephone, now commandeered through the undercover MSPD officer, and once more introduced to trade any other vape pen for oral sex at Ragan Park, a couple of 10-minute stroll from the varsity at 530 Ragan Drive.
According to the arrest file, the undercover officer requested time and again what Ledon sought after so as to ascertain what he used to be looking for from the center schooler and he spoke back with pictures of “a girl licking an ice cream cone, a cat licking a banana and a man with a hand to his mouth with the caption ‘gawk gawk’ attached to it.”
Police stated he wasn’t deterred through messages pointing out the woman used to be a “virgin” and “nervous,” and after going to Ragan Park for the trade and no longer seeing the sufferer, he advised her he’d go away the vape at the park’s slide and left.
He organized but any other tried trade of a vape for oral sex on Oct. 25 at Stafford Park, police stated — and that’s when law enforcement officials would transfer in to arrest him.
The file states that an MSPD officer and sergeant approached him within the park and known themselves, main Ledon to run away and ditch his cell phone, which officials later discovered.
Officers took him into custody in entrance of a house within the 500 block of Miller Drive, the place they stated they discovered a vape cartridge in his pocket and a backpack containing two baggies of cocaine, more than one baggies of hashish and 3 extra disposable vapes.
Police arrested Ledon on 8 criminal fees, together with tried lewd and lascivious habits on a kid underneath 16 and more than one fees pertaining to on-line kid solicitation and drug ownership.
Authorities additionally arrested him on misdemeanor fees of contributing to the delinquency of a kid and resisting arrest. Ledon used to be being held within the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $74,500 bond as of Thursday afternoon, in accordance to prison information.
In a post to Instagram about Ledon’s arrest Thursday, Miami Springs police inspired the general public to ship in more information.
“If your child attends any of our local schools and has come in contact with Ledon, please contact MSPD immediately,” the post reads partially.
Editor’s be aware: This article has been up to date to be aware that Ledon is going through 8, slightly than seven, criminal fees and up to date to replicate his newest bond overall after he gave the impression in court docket Thursday.
Local 10 News reporter Rosh Lowe contributed to this tale.
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