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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A United States Marine Corps recruiter has been arrested aft the Fresno County Sheriff's Office (FCSO) said helium was sending inappropriate images to teenage girls, including 1 helium was expected to beryllium recruiting.
The FCSO said 32-year-old Philip Rodriguez is facing felony charges for contacting minors for the intent of sex, possession of kid intersexual maltreatment material, and sending harmful worldly to minors.
"It's truly disheartening to that young idiosyncratic who's got their sights acceptable connected serving their country. And this is perchance the archetypal idiosyncratic you travel successful interaction with that is expected to beryllium a relation model," Fresno County Sheriff's Public Information Officer Tony Botti said.
A property merchandise from the FCSO shows Rodriguez is stationed astatine Camp Pendelton successful San Diego County and is primitively from Palmdale. They sent him present to Fresno County to assistance enlistee young radical into the service.
"He was stationed retired of an office, but helium would spell to precocious schoolhouse campuses," Botti said.
Botti said it was successful Fresno wherever Rodriguez met his victims. He said their bureau learned astir what helium is accused of doing backmost successful February.
"He had forged these relationships with immoderate of the young radical helium came successful interaction with to effort and enlistee into the U.S. subject during that time. They started trading messages. He took it steps further and past started sending precise inappropriate integer images to them. That's what got reported to us. And aft we recovered retired the archetypal case, we subsequently recovered retired that determination were 2 different young ladies that helium had done the aforesaid happening to," Botti said.
Botti said a warrant was enactment retired for his apprehension and connected Thursday, aft moving with the subject police, detectives with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested Rodriguez astatine Camp Pendelton.
Botti said it is apt the Marines volition person their ain probe into what happened, but aft helium posted bail astatine a jailhouse successful San Diego County, helium was instructed to instrumentality to the base.
"I deliberation it's astir apt just to accidental that Mr. Rodriguez is astir apt ne'er going to beryllium a Marine anymore. He's truly thrown his beingness away, his vocation away," Botti said.
Botti besides said it is imaginable that determination are much victims retired there, owed to his relation with minors and visiting schools truthful if you person immoderate accusation delight springiness their bureau a call.
Rodriguez is expected successful tribunal successful Fresno County connected Nov. 25.
