* Carlyle Villazon Arrested in San Leandro Walmart for Allegedly Molesting 8 Year Old Child-Watch Newscast Here
Published by Junior Staff Writer on December 13, 2010
A San Leandro man has been arrested on suspicion of touching an 8-year-old girl inappropriately inside a Walmart store last Friday evening, police said. At approximately 7 p.m., officers responded to the Walmart at 1919 Davis St. in San Leandro and found the suspect, 29-year-old Carlyle Villazon, pinned to the ground by Oakland resident Malcolm Mason and San Leandro resident Dino Rinetti. Villazon was arrested on charges of engaging in lewd acts with a child, aggravated sexual assault on a child and false imprisonment, police said. Police said the 8-year-old victim was shopping with her family when she told her mother that her younger brother had disappeared and that she would go find him. A short time later, the girl walked back to her mother in tears and told her that a man had and touched her inappropriately. She stuck her hand down her pants to demonstrate what the man had done to her, police said. The victim’s mother immediately alerted Walmart staff of the incident and both parties began searching for the man inside the store. The girl spotted Villazon near the garden department and identified him to her mother. Police said that when Villazon caught the pair looking at him, he ran toward the main doors. After he fled, her mother yelled, “somebody help, he touched my daughter,” prompting Mason, who was shopping at the Walmart, to chase after Villazon, police said. “The girl’s mom was crying and the little girl was crying, and the mom pointed this guy out,” Mason said. “I started walking toward him and he looked all reddish and nervous, then he started running.” Mason chased Villazon and pushed him to the ground just before he reached the exit doors, he said. “He was about to get up out of there in about 10 yards,” Mason said. “But he didn’t get away, I held him right there until the police came.” Rinetti, the second good Samaritan, helped tackle Villazon and both men detained him until officers arrived about 15 minutes later, Mason said. The girl was taken to Children’s Hospital in Oakland for forensic assault evaluation. Police said Villazon is not a registered sex offender, but has prior arrest history for traffic violations and making terrorist threats. Earlier this month, a similar sexual assault was reported inside a Dollar Tree store in Union City. On the afternoon of Dec. 3, a man pinned down a 2-year-old girl, removed her diaper and pants and straddled her after she wandered into the next aisle over from her family members, police said. The suspect in that case, Eugene Melendres Ramos, 36, was arrested on suspicion of committing a forcible lewd act on a child, assault with intent to commit a sex crime and attempted intercourse or sodomy with a child under the age of 10. Ramos was also tackled by good Samaritans as he tried to flee, police said.
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