Melvin Rivera-Gonzalez (Bayamon, Puerto Rico), 27, teacher at an unspecified school in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, "social media to entice a 15-year-old girl into unlawful sexual conduct" WRAL: Puerto Rico teacher arrested on enticement charges (Feb 10 2014) A gym teacher in Puerto Rico faces federal charges for allegedly using social media to entice a 15-year-old girl into unlawful sexual conduct. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Monday identified the man as 27-year-old Melvin Rivera Gonzalez. He works at an elementary school in the northern town of Toa Baja ... U.S. agents say they began investigating Rivera after school officials reported he was using the popular Kik application for messaging and sharing video on smartphones to sexually entice a student. Agents allege he later engaged in sexually explicit conversations with an undercover agent posing as a minor.Tags:
Fox News: Puerto Rico teacher arrested on enticement charges (Feb. undated) A gym teacher in Puerto Rico faces federal charges for allegedly using social media to entice a 15-year-old girl into unlawful sexual conduct. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Monday identified the man as 27-year-old Melvin Rivera Gonzalez. He works at an elementary school in the northern town of Toa Baja.
Immigration & Customs Enforcement: HSI arrests physical education teacher on child exploitation charges [Press Release] (Feb 10 2014) A 27-year-old physical education teacher of a local school in Toa Baja was arrested Friday for allegedly enticing, coercing and inducing one of his students, a 15-year-old female minor, into sexually criminal conduct. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), working jointly with Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force, conducted the investigation that led to the arrest of the school teacher. HSI special agents arrested Melvin Rivera-Gonzalez, of Bayamon, after they received information from school officials indicating that Rivera-Gonzalez used his Kik account to sexually entice one of his students. Kik is a smartphone application that allows users to communicate by video and instant message over the Internet. According to the charging document, Rivera-Gonzalez engaged in sexually explicit conversations with an individual whom he thought was the minor instead of an HSI special agent acting in an undercover capacity. He was arrested in Toa Baja after he persuaded an individual whom he thought was the minor to meet him to engage in sexually illicit conduct....Rivera-Gonzalez had his initial hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce McGiverin who ordered his transfer to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Guaynabo pending the outcome of his case.
