Grady Judd: Man tried to kidnap girl, exposed himself to children

Hello everyone, thank you very much for being with us this Friday. I have with us today our new Winter Haven deputy chief, Vance Monroe. Now the reason he doesn't know where to be is because he retired as a major, I mean major to me in charge of the entire east side of the county, but director Charlie Bird, who is a dear friend of mine and the director of security Winter Haven public, said, uh Sheriff, I think I'll recruit him to come work for us, so you know. when I talk about relationships and the relationships that we have, the director, uh, Charlie Bird is a very dear friend of mine and he's the big head of Public Safety, all of Winter Haven Public Safety and then, of course, Vance Monroe, the new deputy chief of police. a is a dear friend of mine and, uh, I promise he is very valuable and he just retired, so I'm sad to see him go, but I'm happy that he's in Winter Haven and they haven't picked him up and taken him to another one. part of the state so this is what we want to talk about today, it's rare that you see a serial sex offender but we had one in our midst and I can't commend the Winter Haven Police Department and my deputies enough for their work .

To show you the picture of a very dangerous person, he has a sex offender pedigree, a deviant and it is only by the grace of God that at least we know we don't have any dead sexually abused

children

except Deputy Chief Vance. Cress is going to talk more about that, let me introduce you to Robert Miranda. Robert is 42 years old. He was arrested in 2000 for assault and battery on a 12-year-old boy. At the time he was 17, so for whatever reason they withheld the award. but the good news is he was designated a sex offender now he has a criminal record for years of cocaine abuse and he goes back and forth between Bard County, P County, different counties, he gets probation here probation there he is locked up for some period of time, but this guy has never been to state prison and has a long criminal history, so let me take you to February 16 of this year at Avenue a and 2 Street Southwest there is a mother and daughter who are in their 30s and 60s.

They're just visiting Winter Haven from North Carolina because they wanted to take a vacation, they looked online and said, "Wow, that Winter Haven is a beautiful place, let's go and see well, they saw more than they wanted to, so they're literally standing there." and admiring Winter Haven when this guy pulls up in a gray Mitsubishi Outlander and masturbates in their presence. They try to get his license plate number. He doesn't have a license plate number, so they notify the Witer Haven Police Department. a week, no. more activity on February 23 at 7:20 in the morning at Avenue H and 15th Street Northeast Winter Haven This is in the unincorporated area outside the city of Winter Haven, where this guy is. stops and at 7:20 in the morning asks this. 9 year old boy, you know, have you lost a dog?

I have this brown and black puppy shaking in my car, come here and take a good look, even at that age she ran, He ran to a neighbor who was waiting outside. went to school, ran to a neighbor to report this guy that C reported that information to us and then a few minutes later at 7 40 he appears again on Avenue J Southeast and 4th Street within the city, now we understand between the city and the county. it's like a block or two, so on February 23rd on Avenue J he drove up to a 12 year old boy who was wearing a hoodie and had bangs and started masturbating in the presence of the 12 year old boy and that was reported to him Winter Haven Police Department, so the Winter Haven Police Department, as CH deputy chief, will explain that they put out a bulletin and they are aware, we realize, hey, after talking to the police, that it is not only ours in the county. just his two in the county we are three in a very short period of time we don't have a license plate number he doesn't have a tag on his vehicle now friends, when we saw this pattern of activity, there is normal crime behavior that we all deal with and When you look at the three of us I like to think I'm the youngest of the three, but when you look at the three of us we have a hundred years of experience in this business, over After a hundred years of experience, we knew right away that we were dealing with a deviant, a dangerous deviant between the police department and the sheriff's office.

We had over 100 detectives working this case and this is what our supervisors told them: It's an untagged gray Mitsubishi Outlander. Tag now, go find the guy folks, that has no clues, he's supposed to be in his 20s or 30s. years, he wears all black when he does these things, he wears black shorts, black shirts, and a black or dark-colored mask, and the detectives start working. they build a video where all the detectives work together they assemble videos and in a piece of video in another part of the city, guess what we found, a tag number, so I want to stop for a moment and I want to congratulate and thank you.

Winter Haven business owners, when you implemented that video to protect your customers, serve your customers to protect your business, you all collectively stopped a serial sex offender and allowed that person to be caught and I commend our business community, so let's do this. The investigation we have the tag number that takes us to mom. It turns out that the family owns a used car auction between Hannes City and Lake Alfred and she lent this car to her son, who is an auctioneer. We found him in the car in Titusville now. I want you to think about this for a second, that's how wonderful it is that all of our detectives worked together on the strength of our partnerships, working together in quick order, we found a guy on the other side of the state who was an imminent danger to

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. here. in P County we found out, obviously, and his mom told us, hey, he's a registered sex offender and we're going to arrest Ed on March 1st in Bard County and serve search warrants on his house, guess what we found? , breaking news, black surgical mask, then we did it. a search warrant on his Outlander and guess what we found, breaking news, more mask, one of them had what looked like moles from a distance and there it was in the vehicle, well March 6th was his birthday and that It's the day he arrived in the county. jail in P county, we brought him back here 5 days later, that was just part of his birthday gift was visiting Grady Town, the other part of his gift was our detectives, besides sex offender rapes, they presented charges of attempted

kidnap

ping and lewd behavior. conduct charges uh conduct our goal is to lock him up for the rest of his life we ​​were able to upgrade these charges because he was wearing a mask when he committed the crime our state attorney Brian hos is just the best he and his office recognize how dangerous this person is and now this locked