Peter Howle Brady, 78, Daytona Beach shores,FL
Suspected of being part of a large scale pedophile ring at the Daytona beach motels and Boardwalk in the late 90s
Arrested AGAIN..yesterday for you guessed it lewd and lavicious touching of certain minors
He sure does own a looot of property … js
@icu_luci
Suspected of being part of a large scale pedophile ring at the Daytona beach motels and Boardwalk in the late 90s
Arrested AGAIN..yesterday for you guessed it lewd and lavicious touching of certain minors
He sure does own a looot of property … js
@icu_luci
Rewind : 1994
Before his death in 1994, Olen Lee Hepler Jr. spent a lifetime fishing at the Daytona Beach pier.
He trolled in the shadows underneath, angling for runaway boys.
Hepler was a pedophile. His consuming passion – and it did eventually consume him – was having sex with children.
Police say his targets were runaway boys looking for a teen paradise at Daytona Beach. When reality dashed the dreams and drained their wallets, Hepler was waiting.
He lured the boys home with offers of food, shelter and cash. When the boys fell asleep, presuming themselves safe in Hepler’s care, he crept up and undressed them for oral and anal sex, court records show. Afraid, confused or groggy from drugs, the boys were powerless to resist.
Aside from the sex, life with Hepler had its attractions for teens. He was a Daytona Beach car salesman who made enough money to keep the kids in liquor, drugs and quarters for Boardwalk arcades, according to one victim. He provided boys with new clothes and sneakers. He showed them pornographic movies and made a few, videotaping the boys at play and in orgies. He walked around his house naked and encouraged the boys to do the same, the victim said.
In 1994 a 15-year-old shot Hepler, 47, to death. The gunshot did what police could not: It stopped a man who had been abusing boys for 20 years. Police searching his house found hundreds of photographs of boys, most clothed in normal poses. Police say such collections are common among molesters.
As a pedophile, Hepler was but one grain of sand on Daytona’s beaches. For a quarter-century, countless pedophiles have mined the Boardwalk for boys.
Some are moneyed men with boats, motorcycles and other pricey toys to impress children. Some own secluded beach homes where they can molest in private.
The pedophiles operate in packs, trading boys to each other and sharing homemade videotapes. Some keep “harems” of youngsters, entire groups of teens called upon at the whim of the pedophiles.
The men threaten any boy who objects with abandonment.
Experts at deception
Daytona Beach’s pedophiles work in the shadows, changing their seductions to elude snooping officers who, over the years, have taken note of the sex-seeking men. In the mid-1980s, men lured teens to bed with crack cocaine. As detectives stamped out that drug trade, they noticed the pedophiles had moved their activities into several beachfront hotels.
The hotels, it turned out, were owned by pedophiles. And they were convenient – just a short walk to consummate a Boardwalk seduction.
City and state investigators consider the acts abhorrent and began to crack down in 1991. A police presence and vigilance by Boardwalk businesses have reduced the activity, but the pedophiles know the rhythms of police patrols. They know how to avoid being caught.
“They were very, very law enforcement conscious,” John Bisland testified in August 1995 about Hepler’s associates. The special agent for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was speaking during a deposition in Hepler’s murder case. “They shared very little with anyone outside the scope of that close circle of friends, as it relates to pedophilia.”
Elusiveness is a pedophile’s trademark. Hepler was never arrested.
The man who found Hepler’s body was his longtime friend Larry Mullins, who was a well-known face on the Boardwalk for 20 years.
In court and police documents, as well as sworn depositions, Mullins repeatedly has been linked to pedophilia in Daytona Beach. From 1987 until soon after Hepler’s death in 1994, Mullins owned the beachfront Boardwalk Motel, which also was linked repeatedly to pedophilia.
Mullins, 43, declined to be interviewed for this story, and his hotel, now with new owners, is no longer under investigation by law enforcement, said Mary Pascale, a Volusia County state attorney investigator.
The FDLE investigated Mullins and his hotel from March 1991 until November 1993, never building enough evidence to prosecute.
But FDLE’s report concluded that Mullins’ hotel was used to “facilitate room rentals for the purposes of juvenile homosexual prostitution.”
The Volusia County State Attorney’s Office is investigating Mullins again, Pascale said. She refused to provide details.
Statements about Mullins and his hotel are contained in court and investigative records:
– “I knew about the Boardwalk Motel. That’s common knowledge in Daytona Beach. . . . The common knowledge is that’s where all the runaways used to go and that’s where these people used to meet these boys. . . . We know that Mullins is involved with young boys.” – Volusia sheriff’s Capt. Bob Vail, 1995.
– “His hotel was used by several pedophiles that I am aware of – one that I specifically arrested who would bring boys over from Orlando, and Larry would give them discounts to use the motel for illicit purposes.” – Daytona Beach police Detective John Adazzio, 1995.
– “Most of the – what I would say, the recruitment and the actual sex acts were taking place in the Boardwalk Motel and the Boardwalk area.” – FDLE Special Agent John Bisland, 1995, speaking about Mullins, Hepler and associates.
Always room at the hotel
During the FDLE investigation, when an informant wired with a tape recorder asked Mullins about renting a room for prostitution, Mullins did not object. He said a room was available.
Another time, the informant told Mullins he had a $300 “trick” waiting for him in one of Mullins’ rooms. Mullins told the informant “to get up to the room and take care of” the man.
And when an informant asked Mullins about procuring young boys, Mullins said that he had been “careful for the past year” that police had been monitoring hustlers near the hotel.
Perhaps nothing demonstrates Mullins’ role in the loose-knit world of the pedophile as well as his involvement with a 14-year-old named Mikey.
In the fall of 1991, Kathy Smith was working feverishly to retrieve her son from the grasp of pedophiles, who were trading Mikey from man to man. Mikey never accused Mullins of molesting him, but Mullins knew all about Mikey, according to testimony by Mikey and a journal kept by his mother.
What happened was this: Two of the pedophiles who molested Mikey took him back home with them to South Carolina. Mikey’s stepfather, having heard of Mullins, threatened to give Mullins’ name to police if Mikey did not arrive home within 24 hours.
Within 15 minutes, Mullins reported that Mikey was headed home on a bus, according to the youth’s testimony and his mother’s journal. The incident shows that Mullins knew where to call to find Mikey and had the influence to force his return.
Another man who was linked to pedophile activity in the FDLE investigation is Mullins’ friend, Peter Howle Brady.
After Mullins found Hepler’s body, he called Brady to tell him to meet him at the house. The two men then called Hepler’s brother, who called police.
Brady, who is independently wealthy, is the son of the late heiress Elinor Ryan Brady, a socialite whose famed Washington estate, Valley View, was listed for sale in 1994 at $19 million.
Brady, Mullins and Hepler were close friends, the FDLE’s Bisland said in a deposition.
Before Hepler died, the trio spent much time in Boardwalk hotels and the arcades, according to the FDLE. Detectives made Brady a target of their investigation, but they did not collect enough evidence against him to prosecute.
Despite repeated attempts to reach him, Brady was unavailable to comment.
Several informants told FDLE investigators they had sex with Brady while they were teen-agers, according to FDLE records. One informant said Brady kept a room at Mullins’ hotel exclusively for prostitution with young boys.
In 1991, FDLE agents saw Brady at one of the arcades, giving money for video games to a 13-year-old. An informant said Brady identified the teen as one of his “squeezes.”
Brady has plenty of money. State records say Brady owns seven boats, including a 45-footer, four motorcycles, two cars and a pickup. He also owns a secluded riverfront home in Ponce Inlet.
The FDLE said its investigation of the three men, “failed to produce sufficient evidence to warrant a prosecution of the primary targets, however, (it) confirmed the suspicions of the activity taking place at the Boardwalk Motel.”
It also notes that many victims were reluctant to testify, and those who came forward did not remain available to be called as witnesses.
Mike Brick, who retired in October as head of FDLE’s Orlando area office, said the Boardwalk investigation was one of the biggest disappointments in his 28-year career. He said investigators knew the pedophilia existed but found no proof that would stand up in court.
“We walked away unhappy,” he said. “We were very frustrated.”
Prosecutors find success
In the past 10 years, local police and prosecutors have tried to curb the pedophilia. The efforts, particularly when a boy is willing to testify, have resulted in a series of prosecutions. The men convicted ranged from a television personality to hotel owners to laborers.
– Emmett Rozier, 55, a former WESH-Channel 2 news anchorman, was charged in 1991 with a lewd and lascivious act involving Mikey.
Rozier had ordered Mikey out of his house because of drunkenness, and when Mikey pleaded to remain, Rozier asked, “What are you going to do for me?” court records show. He took the child downstairs and performed oral sex on him.
Rozier was sentenced to five years of probation, which he violated in 1993 by allowing a couple with a child to stay in his house. He was sentenced to four years in prison and was released in May.
Rozier, who has a history of sex charges involving children, lives in Holly Hill. He is not on parole or probation.
– James Walker, 26, was working at a pizza parlor that Mikey visited. He seduced Mikey with food and sodas. Walker pleaded no contest to lewd and lascivious assault and, after violating the terms of community confinement, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
– Charles Thomas Simpson, 47, lived in a motor home in Rozier’s back yard and was charged with paying Mikey and another boy for sex. A jury found him guilty, and Simpson is serving a nine-year prison sentence.
– Dennis Devlin, 42, owned two beachfront hotels in 1991, and in October, Mikey stayed at one with his parents. Devlin was accused of persuading Mikey and another boy to undresswhile Devlin photographed them. Devlin was charged with lewd and lascivious assault and procuring a child for sexual performance, but the charges were dropped.
Devlin has been arrested numerous times on charges of luring youths to pose nude and perform sex acts. He was convicted in a separate case last year. He served 133 days of a 1 year and 10 month prison sentence and was released in July.
As part of Devlin’s probation, a judge ordered an unusual condition, one that shows how well-known the Boardwalk pedophilia has become.
Devlin is banned from several miles of Daytona beachfront – the places that he and others such as the late Olen Lee Hepler Jr. used to wait patiently for the next boy to drift by.
Before his death in 1994, Olen Lee Hepler Jr. spent a lifetime fishing at the Daytona Beach pier.
He trolled in the shadows underneath, angling for runaway boys.
Hepler was a pedophile. His consuming passion – and it did eventually consume him – was having sex with children.
Police say his targets were runaway boys looking for a teen paradise at Daytona Beach. When reality dashed the dreams and drained their wallets, Hepler was waiting.
He lured the boys home with offers of food, shelter and cash. When the boys fell asleep, presuming themselves safe in Hepler’s care, he crept up and undressed them for oral and anal sex, court records show. Afraid, confused or groggy from drugs, the boys were powerless to resist.
Aside from the sex, life with Hepler had its attractions for teens. He was a Daytona Beach car salesman who made enough money to keep the kids in liquor, drugs and quarters for Boardwalk arcades, according to one victim. He provided boys with new clothes and sneakers. He showed them pornographic movies and made a few, videotaping the boys at play and in orgies. He walked around his house naked and encouraged the boys to do the same, the victim said.
In 1994 a 15-year-old shot Hepler, 47, to death. The gunshot did what police could not: It stopped a man who had been abusing boys for 20 years. Police searching his house found hundreds of photographs of boys, most clothed in normal poses. Police say such collections are common among molesters.
As a pedophile, Hepler was but one grain of sand on Daytona’s beaches. For a quarter-century, countless pedophiles have mined the Boardwalk for boys.
Some are moneyed men with boats, motorcycles and other pricey toys to impress children. Some own secluded beach homes where they can molest in private.
The pedophiles operate in packs, trading boys to each other and sharing homemade videotapes. Some keep “harems” of youngsters, entire groups of teens called upon at the whim of the pedophiles.
The men threaten any boy who objects with abandonment.
Experts at deception
Daytona Beach’s pedophiles work in the shadows, changing their seductions to elude snooping officers who, over the years, have taken note of the sex-seeking men. In the mid-1980s, men lured teens to bed with crack cocaine. As detectives stamped out that drug trade, they noticed the pedophiles had moved their activities into several beachfront hotels.
The hotels, it turned out, were owned by pedophiles. And they were convenient – just a short walk to consummate a Boardwalk seduction.
City and state investigators consider the acts abhorrent and began to crack down in 1991. A police presence and vigilance by Boardwalk businesses have reduced the activity, but the pedophiles know the rhythms of police patrols. They know how to avoid being caught.
“They were very, very law enforcement conscious,” John Bisland testified in August 1995 about Hepler’s associates. The special agent for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was speaking during a deposition in Hepler’s murder case. “They shared very little with anyone outside the scope of that close circle of friends, as it relates to pedophilia.”
Elusiveness is a pedophile’s trademark. Hepler was never arrested.
The man who found Hepler’s body was his longtime friend Larry Mullins, who was a well-known face on the Boardwalk for 20 years.
In court and police documents, as well as sworn depositions, Mullins repeatedly has been linked to pedophilia in Daytona Beach. From 1987 until soon after Hepler’s death in 1994, Mullins owned the beachfront Boardwalk Motel, which also was linked repeatedly to pedophilia.
Mullins, 43, declined to be interviewed for this story, and his hotel, now with new owners, is no longer under investigation by law enforcement, said Mary Pascale, a Volusia County state attorney investigator.
The FDLE investigated Mullins and his hotel from March 1991 until November 1993, never building enough evidence to prosecute.
But FDLE’s report concluded that Mullins’ hotel was used to “facilitate room rentals for the purposes of juvenile homosexual prostitution.”
The Volusia County State Attorney’s Office is investigating Mullins again, Pascale said. She refused to provide details.
Statements about Mullins and his hotel are contained in court and investigative records:
– “I knew about the Boardwalk Motel. That’s common knowledge in Daytona Beach. . . . The common knowledge is that’s where all the runaways used to go and that’s where these people used to meet these boys. . . . We know that Mullins is involved with young boys.” – Volusia sheriff’s Capt. Bob Vail, 1995.
– “His hotel was used by several pedophiles that I am aware of – one that I specifically arrested who would bring boys over from Orlando, and Larry would give them discounts to use the motel for illicit purposes.” – Daytona Beach police Detective John Adazzio, 1995.
– “Most of the – what I would say, the recruitment and the actual sex acts were taking place in the Boardwalk Motel and the Boardwalk area.” – FDLE Special Agent John Bisland, 1995, speaking about Mullins, Hepler and associates.
Always room at the hotel
During the FDLE investigation, when an informant wired with a tape recorder asked Mullins about renting a room for prostitution, Mullins did not object. He said a room was available.
Another time, the informant told Mullins he had a $300 “trick” waiting for him in one of Mullins’ rooms. Mullins told the informant “to get up to the room and take care of” the man.
And when an informant asked Mullins about procuring young boys, Mullins said that he had been “careful for the past year” that police had been monitoring hustlers near the hotel.
Perhaps nothing demonstrates Mullins’ role in the loose-knit world of the pedophile as well as his involvement with a 14-year-old named Mikey.
In the fall of 1991, Kathy Smith was working feverishly to retrieve her son from the grasp of pedophiles, who were trading Mikey from man to man. Mikey never accused Mullins of molesting him, but Mullins knew all about Mikey, according to testimony by Mikey and a journal kept by his mother.
What happened was this: Two of the pedophiles who molested Mikey took him back home with them to South Carolina. Mikey’s stepfather, having heard of Mullins, threatened to give Mullins’ name to police if Mikey did not arrive home within 24 hours.
Within 15 minutes, Mullins reported that Mikey was headed home on a bus, according to the youth’s testimony and his mother’s journal. The incident shows that Mullins knew where to call to find Mikey and had the influence to force his return.
Another man who was linked to pedophile activity in the FDLE investigation is Mullins’ friend, Peter Howle Brady.
After Mullins found Hepler’s body, he called Brady to tell him to meet him at the house. The two men then called Hepler’s brother, who called police.
Brady, who is independently wealthy, is the son of the late heiress Elinor Ryan Brady, a socialite whose famed Washington estate, Valley View, was listed for sale in 1994 at $19 million.
Brady, Mullins and Hepler were close friends, the FDLE’s Bisland said in a deposition.
Before Hepler died, the trio spent much time in Boardwalk hotels and the arcades, according to the FDLE. Detectives made Brady a target of their investigation, but they did not collect enough evidence against him to prosecute.
Despite repeated attempts to reach him, Brady was unavailable to comment.
Several informants told FDLE investigators they had sex with Brady while they were teen-agers, according to FDLE records. One informant said Brady kept a room at Mullins’ hotel exclusively for prostitution with young boys.
In 1991, FDLE agents saw Brady at one of the arcades, giving money for video games to a 13-year-old. An informant said Brady identified the teen as one of his “squeezes.”
Brady has plenty of money. State records say Brady owns seven boats, including a 45-footer, four motorcycles, two cars and a pickup. He also owns a secluded riverfront home in Ponce Inlet.
The FDLE said its investigation of the three men, “failed to produce sufficient evidence to warrant a prosecution of the primary targets, however, (it) confirmed the suspicions of the activity taking place at the Boardwalk Motel.”
It also notes that many victims were reluctant to testify, and those who came forward did not remain available to be called as witnesses.
Mike Brick, who retired in October as head of FDLE’s Orlando area office, said the Boardwalk investigation was one of the biggest disappointments in his 28-year career. He said investigators knew the pedophilia existed but found no proof that would stand up in court.
“We walked away unhappy,” he said. “We were very frustrated.”
Prosecutors find success
In the past 10 years, local police and prosecutors have tried to curb the pedophilia. The efforts, particularly when a boy is willing to testify, have resulted in a series of prosecutions. The men convicted ranged from a television personality to hotel owners to laborers.
– Emmett Rozier, 55, a former WESH-Channel 2 news anchorman, was charged in 1991 with a lewd and lascivious act involving Mikey.
Rozier had ordered Mikey out of his house because of drunkenness, and when Mikey pleaded to remain, Rozier asked, “What are you going to do for me?” court records show. He took the child downstairs and performed oral sex on him.
Rozier was sentenced to five years of probation, which he violated in 1993 by allowing a couple with a child to stay in his house. He was sentenced to four years in prison and was released in May.
Rozier, who has a history of sex charges involving children, lives in Holly Hill. He is not on parole or probation.
– James Walker, 26, was working at a pizza parlor that Mikey visited. He seduced Mikey with food and sodas. Walker pleaded no contest to lewd and lascivious assault and, after violating the terms of community confinement, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
– Charles Thomas Simpson, 47, lived in a motor home in Rozier’s back yard and was charged with paying Mikey and another boy for sex. A jury found him guilty, and Simpson is serving a nine-year prison sentence.
– Dennis Devlin, 42, owned two beachfront hotels in 1991, and in October, Mikey stayed at one with his parents. Devlin was accused of persuading Mikey and another boy to undresswhile Devlin photographed them. Devlin was charged with lewd and lascivious assault and procuring a child for sexual performance, but the charges were dropped.
Devlin has been arrested numerous times on charges of luring youths to pose nude and perform sex acts. He was convicted in a separate case last year. He served 133 days of a 1 year and 10 month prison sentence and was released in July.
As part of Devlin’s probation, a judge ordered an unusual condition, one that shows how well-known the Boardwalk pedophilia has become.
Devlin is banned from several miles of Daytona beachfront – the places that he and others such as the late Olen Lee Hepler Jr. used to wait patiently for the next boy to drift by.
Holy shit @FrikmanG80295
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An open secret
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@FrikmanG80295 @icu_luci @Shannonagain2 nytimes.com/1939/12/02/arc…
SEVERAL informants told FDLE yet they couldn’t find enough evidence ?
Also Involved was a former wesh news anchorman
– Emmett Rozier, 55, a former WESH-Channel 2 news anchorman, was charged in 1991 with a lewd and lascivious act involving Mikey.(a trafficked child at the hotel)
– Emmett Rozier, 55, a former WESH-Channel 2 news anchorman, was charged in 1991 with a lewd and lascivious act involving Mikey.(a trafficked child at the hotel)
@WESH Yw
Rozier had ordered Mikey out of his house because of drunkenness, and when Mikey pleaded to remain, Rozier asked, “What are you going to do for me?” court records show. He took the child downstairs and performed oral sex on him.
Rozier was sentenced to five years of probation, which he violated in 1993 by allowing a couple with a child to stay in his house. He was sentenced to four years in prison and was released in May.
Rozier, who has a history of sex charges involving children, lives in Holly Hill. He is not on parole or probation.
Rozier was sentenced to five years of probation, which he violated in 1993 by allowing a couple with a child to stay in his house. He was sentenced to four years in prison and was released in May.
Rozier, who has a history of sex charges involving children, lives in Holly Hill. He is not on parole or probation.
James Walker, 26, was working at a pizza parlor that Mikey visited. He seduced Mikey with food and sodas. Walker pleaded no contest to lewd and lascivious assault and, after violating the terms of community confinement, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Charles Thomas Simpson, 47, lived in a motor home in Rozier’s back yard and was charged with paying Mikey and another boy for sex. A jury found him guilty, and Simpson is serving a nine-year prison sentence.
– Dennis Devlin, 42, owned two beachfront hotels in 1991, and in October, Mikey stayed at one with his parents. Devlin was accused of persuading Mikey and another boy to undresswhile Devlin photographed them. Devlin was charged with lewd and lascivious assault and procuring a child for sexual performance, but the charges were dropped.
Devlin has been arrested numerous times on charges of luring youths to pose nude and perform sex acts. He was convicted in a separate case last year. He served 133 days of a 1 year and 10 month prison sentence and was released in July.
As part of Devlin’s probation, a judge ordered an unusual condition, one that shows how well-known the Boardwalk pedophilia has become.
Devlin is banned from several miles of Daytona beachfront – the places that he and others such as the late Olen Lee Hepler Jr. used to wait patiently for the next boy to drift by.
– Dennis Devlin, 42, owned two beachfront hotels in 1991, and in October, Mikey stayed at one with his parents. Devlin was accused of persuading Mikey and another boy to undresswhile Devlin photographed them. Devlin was charged with lewd and lascivious assault and procuring a child for sexual performance, but the charges were dropped.
Devlin has been arrested numerous times on charges of luring youths to pose nude and perform sex acts. He was convicted in a separate case last year. He served 133 days of a 1 year and 10 month prison sentence and was released in July.
As part of Devlin’s probation, a judge ordered an unusual condition, one that shows how well-known the Boardwalk pedophilia has become.
Devlin is banned from several miles of Daytona beachfront – the places that he and others such as the late Olen Lee Hepler Jr. used to wait patiently for the next boy to drift by.
@FrikmanG80295 @icu_luci @Shannonagain2 washingtonlife.com/2012/01/20/ins…
@FrikmanG80295 @icu_luci @Shannonagain2 historicimages.com/products/sba00…
In 1994 a 15-year-old shot Hepler, 47, to death. The gunshot did what police could not: It stopped a man who had been abusing boys for 20 years. Police searching his house found hundreds of photographs of boys, most clothed in normal poses. Police say such collections are common among molesters.
As a pedophile, Hepler was but one grain of sand on Daytona’s beaches. For a quarter-century, countless pedophiles have mined the Boardwalk for boys.
Some are moneyed men with boats, motorcycles and other pricey toys to impress children. Some own secluded beach homes where they can molest in private.
The pedophiles operate in packs, trading boys to each other and sharing homemade videotapes. Some keep “harems” of youngsters, entire groups of teens called upon at the whim of the pedophiles.
As a pedophile, Hepler was but one grain of sand on Daytona’s beaches. For a quarter-century, countless pedophiles have mined the Boardwalk for boys.
Some are moneyed men with boats, motorcycles and other pricey toys to impress children. Some own secluded beach homes where they can molest in private.
The pedophiles operate in packs, trading boys to each other and sharing homemade videotapes. Some keep “harems” of youngsters, entire groups of teens called upon at the whim of the pedophiles.
Recap of ✌🏼alleged ✌🏼predators in this ring
Olen Lee Hepler Jr- deceased-
Larry Mullins-owned motel used for abuse
Peter Howle Brady- real estate Heir see above also
Emmett Rozier- wesh 2 anchor
James Walker- pizza parlor worker
Charles Thomas Simpson- lived in camper on property where abuse occurred. Paid boys for …
Dennis Devlin- owned two beach front hotels
Olen Lee Hepler Jr- deceased-
Larry Mullins-owned motel used for abuse
Peter Howle Brady- real estate Heir see above also
Emmett Rozier- wesh 2 anchor
James Walker- pizza parlor worker
Charles Thomas Simpson- lived in camper on property where abuse occurred. Paid boys for …
Dennis Devlin- owned two beach front hotels
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@VolusiaSheriff
don’t let him get away again like they did in the 90s!!!!!!!
@VolusiaSheriff
don’t let him get away again like they did in the 90s!!!!!!!
2021:
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Two Holly Hill men and two South Carolina men have been charged with sexually assaulting children.
Those arrested included Emmett Rozier, 51, a former television and radio reporter, who was charged Saturday with lewd and lascivious assault on a child after an investigation by Florida and South Carolina authorities.
A news release from State Attorney John Tanner’s office did not give details of the case. But it said the charges involved sexual battery and lewd acts on boys who are under 12 and 14 years old.
Tanner also said that Daytona Beach attracts runaways and others who are vulnerable to sexual assault. “Many times the young victims of this type of sexual abuse become the subject of child pornography films that are sold on the black market,” he said.
Rozier, of 1091 Maple Ave., Holly Hill, was arrested on the same charge last year in a U.S. Customs undercover sting that netted more than three dozen boxes of child pornography and cracked an international child pornography operation.
Charges against Rozier in that case were dropped. Two other men were also charged in the July 1990 sting.
In 1982, Rozier pleaded no contest to a charge he let two boys watch a pornographic movie at his home.
Also arrested Saturday after an investigation by Tanner, the Daytona Beach Police Department and the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division were:
– Jimmy Walker, 22, also of 1091 Maple Ave. He was charged with sexual battery.
– James Anasti, 46, of Columbia, S.C. Anasti was charged with being a principle to lewd and lascivious assault upon a child under 16 and sexual performance by a child.
– Warren Thompson, 21, of Columbia, S.C. He was charged with sexual battery.
Bail was set for Rozier and Walker at $50,000. Rozier posted bond Saturday. Walker was still being held Tuesday evening.
Thompson and Anasti will be extradited to Florida from South Carolina. Bail was set at $75,000 for Anasti and $50,000 for Thompson.
@icu_luci
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Two Holly Hill men and two South Carolina men have been charged with sexually assaulting children.
Those arrested included Emmett Rozier, 51, a former television and radio reporter, who was charged Saturday with lewd and lascivious assault on a child after an investigation by Florida and South Carolina authorities.
A news release from State Attorney John Tanner’s office did not give details of the case. But it said the charges involved sexual battery and lewd acts on boys who are under 12 and 14 years old.
Tanner also said that Daytona Beach attracts runaways and others who are vulnerable to sexual assault. “Many times the young victims of this type of sexual abuse become the subject of child pornography films that are sold on the black market,” he said.
Rozier, of 1091 Maple Ave., Holly Hill, was arrested on the same charge last year in a U.S. Customs undercover sting that netted more than three dozen boxes of child pornography and cracked an international child pornography operation.
Charges against Rozier in that case were dropped. Two other men were also charged in the July 1990 sting.
In 1982, Rozier pleaded no contest to a charge he let two boys watch a pornographic movie at his home.
Also arrested Saturday after an investigation by Tanner, the Daytona Beach Police Department and the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division were:
– Jimmy Walker, 22, also of 1091 Maple Ave. He was charged with sexual battery.
– James Anasti, 46, of Columbia, S.C. Anasti was charged with being a principle to lewd and lascivious assault upon a child under 16 and sexual performance by a child.
– Warren Thompson, 21, of Columbia, S.C. He was charged with sexual battery.
Bail was set for Rozier and Walker at $50,000. Rozier posted bond Saturday. Walker was still being held Tuesday evening.
Thompson and Anasti will be extradited to Florida from South Carolina. Bail was set at $75,000 for Anasti and $50,000 for Thompson.
@LizCrokin
Later Connected to two others:
James Anasti, 46, of Columbia, S.C. Anasti was charged with being a principle to lewd and lascivious assault upon a child under 16 and sexual performance by a child.
– Warren Thompson, 21, of Columbia, S.C. He was charged with sexual battery.
James Anasti, 46, of Columbia, S.C. Anasti was charged with being a principle to lewd and lascivious assault upon a child under 16 and sexual performance by a child.
– Warren Thompson, 21, of Columbia, S.C. He was charged with sexual battery.
@NewsJournalDB some public awareness please
@fox35orlando
2013
Dennis Devlin -former owner of the Desert Inn. (Now the Hard Rock Hotel)
ORLANDOActing United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the forfeiture of $1,552,588.62 obtained from the sale of the Desert Inn Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida. In July 2011, Dennis Brian Devlin, of Daytona Beach, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a minor. As part of Devlin’s sentence, the court ordered Devlin to forfeit his interest in the Desert Inn because it was used to facilitate the crimes for which he was convicted.
The titled owner of the Desert Inn, Deslin Hotels Inc., filed a claim to contest the forfeiture of the hotel because it alleged that Devlin did not have an interest in the hotel. After several months of litigation, a settlement was reached wherein Deslin Hotels Inc. conceded to the forfeiture of $1,552,588.62, which represents Devlin’s interest in the proceeds obtained from the recent sale of the Desert Inn.
Dennis Devlin -former owner of the Desert Inn. (Now the Hard Rock Hotel)
ORLANDOActing United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the forfeiture of $1,552,588.62 obtained from the sale of the Desert Inn Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida. In July 2011, Dennis Brian Devlin, of Daytona Beach, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a minor. As part of Devlin’s sentence, the court ordered Devlin to forfeit his interest in the Desert Inn because it was used to facilitate the crimes for which he was convicted.
The titled owner of the Desert Inn, Deslin Hotels Inc., filed a claim to contest the forfeiture of the hotel because it alleged that Devlin did not have an interest in the hotel. After several months of litigation, a settlement was reached wherein Deslin Hotels Inc. conceded to the forfeiture of $1,552,588.62, which represents Devlin’s interest in the proceeds obtained from the recent sale of the Desert Inn.
In July 2011, Dennis Brian Devlin, of Daytona Beach, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a minor. According to court documents, on more than one occasion in January 2011, Devlin persuaded a 13-year-old child to engage in sexually explicit conduct at the Desert Inn in Daytona Beach. He then used an iPhone and video camera, to take sexually explicit pictures and video of the child. On February 2, 2011, agents executed a federal search warrant at the Desert Inn where Devlin lived and found several iPhones and numerous CDs and DVDs concealed in the ceiling of Devlin's bathroom that contained sexually explicit images of the child and other images depicting child pornography.
As part of Devlin's sentence, the court ordered Devlin to forfeit his interest in the Desert Inn, because he had used the hotel to facilitate the crimes for which he was convicted. The forfeited funds were obtained from the sale of the Desert Inn.
The titled owner of the Desert Inn, Deslin Hotels, Inc., filed a claim to contest the forfeiture of the hotel because it alleged that Devlin did not have an interest in the hotel. After several months of litigation, a settlement was reached wherein Deslin Hotels, Inc. conceded to the forfeiture of $1,552,588.62, which represents Devlin's interest in the proceeds obtained from the recent sale of the Desert Inn.
As part of Devlin's sentence, the court ordered Devlin to forfeit his interest in the Desert Inn, because he had used the hotel to facilitate the crimes for which he was convicted. The forfeited funds were obtained from the sale of the Desert Inn.
The titled owner of the Desert Inn, Deslin Hotels, Inc., filed a claim to contest the forfeiture of the hotel because it alleged that Devlin did not have an interest in the hotel. After several months of litigation, a settlement was reached wherein Deslin Hotels, Inc. conceded to the forfeiture of $1,552,588.62, which represents Devlin's interest in the proceeds obtained from the recent sale of the Desert Inn.
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Michael C Ehmen
ORLANDO—United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging Dennis Brian Devlin (57) and Michael C. Ehmen (20), both of Daytona Beach, Florida, with aiding and abetting each other in the sexual exploitation of a minor. Devlin also was charged with possession of child pornography. If convicted on all counts, Devlin faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in federal prison and a maximum total penalty of 40 years in federal prison. Ehmen faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in federal prison and maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.
According to the criminal complaint affidavit, on or about January 20 and 22, 2011, Devlin and Ehmen, aiding and abetting each other, employed and used a 13-year-old child to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions of that conduct. The affidavit alleges that on both dates, Ehmen drove the child to the Desert Inn in Daytona Beach, Florida, where Devlin, using an iPhone and video camera, took pictures and video taped the child, while the minor was made to engage in sexually explicit activity. On February 2, 2011, agents executed a federal search warrant at the Desert Inn where Devlin lived, and found several iPhones and numerous CDs and DVDs concealed in the ceiling of Devlin’s bathroom. Agents conducted a forensic examination of the iPhones and found the sexually explicit images of the child on the iPhone. They also recovered a DVD which contained video of the child and Ehmen engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Devlin can be heard in the background of the DVD directing the child and offering the child money. Agents also found child pornography images in Devlin’s suite
Michael C Ehmen
ORLANDO—United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging Dennis Brian Devlin (57) and Michael C. Ehmen (20), both of Daytona Beach, Florida, with aiding and abetting each other in the sexual exploitation of a minor. Devlin also was charged with possession of child pornography. If convicted on all counts, Devlin faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in federal prison and a maximum total penalty of 40 years in federal prison. Ehmen faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in federal prison and maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.
According to the criminal complaint affidavit, on or about January 20 and 22, 2011, Devlin and Ehmen, aiding and abetting each other, employed and used a 13-year-old child to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions of that conduct. The affidavit alleges that on both dates, Ehmen drove the child to the Desert Inn in Daytona Beach, Florida, where Devlin, using an iPhone and video camera, took pictures and video taped the child, while the minor was made to engage in sexually explicit activity. On February 2, 2011, agents executed a federal search warrant at the Desert Inn where Devlin lived, and found several iPhones and numerous CDs and DVDs concealed in the ceiling of Devlin’s bathroom. Agents conducted a forensic examination of the iPhones and found the sexually explicit images of the child on the iPhone. They also recovered a DVD which contained video of the child and Ehmen engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Devlin can be heard in the background of the DVD directing the child and offering the child money. Agents also found child pornography images in Devlin’s suite
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