Michigan Sex Crime Attorneys Blog

Recently, 45-year-old Sgt. Michael E. Alexander, a Washington County, Oregon sheriff’s sergeant, was arrested for allegedly traveling to Idaho twice in 2015 for the purpose of having sex with a 15-year-old boy Alexander met through a dating app, according to authorities.

Alexander has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of investigations. News reports claim he faces once charge of enticing a child over the Internet or other communication device, and two counts of lewd conduct with a minor child under 16. Alexander was jailed on February 4 and bail set at $1 million. A spokesman with the Canyon County Sheriff’s Office said Alexander turned himself in in Idaho.

Inappropriate text messages are what led police in Idaho to investigate Alexander. The alleged victim’s mother found the text messages on her son’s cell phone. Authorities discovered Alexander had come in contact with the victim via Grindr, a dating app. He then traveled to Idaho twice, once in June of 2015 and once in September of 2015, allegedly to have sex with the teenage boy.

Yesterday it was announced that a 37-year-old former science teacher was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he was found guilty of choking and sexually assaulting a woman in October of 2013. Dale Kukucka of Andover still proclaims his innocence in the incident that allegedly took place inside a women’s restroom at the East Haddam Grange Hall. Kukucka is accused of choking the 23-year-old victim to the point of unconsciousness, then sexually assaulting her.

A public defender in the case requested that Kukucka get five years due to the fact that up until the time of his arrest, the defendant had lived an admirable life. He also pointed out that the crimes were fueled by alcohol. According to news reports, Kukucka, who was a teacher at Carmen Arace Intermediate School and the woman were at the hall during the Moodus Drum and Fife Corps Ancient Muster. It was not mentioned whether the two knew each other.

In June of last year, Kukucka rejected a plea deal choosing to go to trial. He stills insists he is innocent, but now stands convicted on a single charge each of first-degree strangulation, third-degree sexual assault, and third-degree assault. Two people came into the bathroom while the alleged attack was occurring, a man and a woman. The man attempted to keep Kukucka there until police arrived, but the defendant assaulted him and then fled. Kukucka’s girlfriend reportedly showed a photo of the defendant that was on her cell phone to the man, who confirmed he was the one who assaulted himself and the victim.

On December 27, a Bexar County detention officer allegedly forced a female inmate to have sex in the jail parking lot in a Sheriff’s Office van, according to news reports at Expressnews.com. 35-year-old Erick Montez has now been arrested and is facing termination.

Sheriff Susan Pamerleau said the department had obtained surveillance footage that appears to support the female inmate’s allegations. She also said that Montez confessed after questioning by investigators.

Pamerleau said that in his employment capacity, Montez was responsible for transporting inmates and overseeing a housing unit. She called the sexual assault a “disgrace,” saying Montez not only violated the inmate, but the public’s trust. Pamerleau said in a recent news conference that the termination process for Montez was underway.

Yesterday, an article at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette revealed that a doctor at the West Penn Hospital has been accused of sexually assaulting a nurse at the facility. The incident allegedly took place on September 4 of last year.

According to the criminal complaint, the nurse agreed to have dinner with Dr. Entezam Asim Sahovic at a Shadyside restaurant. The victim told police that as they were driving to her home, she offered to let Sahovic sleep at her house that night because she felt he had drank too much to drive. The nurse claims that once the two were inside her home, the doctor told her repeatedly that he insisted on her sleeping with him. She claims to have replied “no” each time Sahovic made the suggestion before finally going to bed alone.

At some point during the night the nurse claimed she woke up to find Sahovic taking her clothes off and sexually assaulting her. She said that after falling back asleep and again waking, he was naked in the bed with her. The woman, whose name was not released, says that although the doctor professed his love to her in August of last year, she did not have an intimate relationship with him. She maintains Sahovic agreed to remain friends, and agreed the two would not have a sexual or intimate relationship.

Recently, 36-year-old Michael McCray was arrested for allegedly raping and sexually assaulting two victims who are minors. McCray was arrested at the Jacksonville Lighthouse Charter School, where he is currently employed.

The alleged incidents occurred between August 2012 and June 2014, when McCray was employed as a boys’ basketball and track coach, and PE teacher at the Anthony School in Little Rock. The LRPD received a report from Anthony School claiming that a former teacher at the school had sex on several occasions with a juvenile victim, according to police reports.

A news report at KATV 7 revealed that it all began when a female student at the Anthony School cut her hand in PE class. McCray allegedly took her into a closet where first aid supplies were stored, closed the door, and began kissing her and grabbing her skirt as he pushed her against a wall. An affidavit claims McCray told the girl not to tell anyone, and the two began having sex although the girl reportedly told him she didn’t want to. The alleged victim said that she and a second victim would be assigned to ride with McCray to track meets, and that he would take them to his home and engage in sex with one of the girls.

On the morning of October 14, 33-year-old Garry Chow of Modesto was arrested in connection with the sexual assault and attempted sexual assault of two women who believed they were responding to an ad for a modeling job on the Internet. The two incidents occurred on Sept. 10 in Redwood City, according to a news report at the Redwood City-Woodside Patch.

A 23-year-old Vallejo woman was the first to respond to the ad; she arrived at the Sequoia Hospital after being told by the “agent” when responding to the ad that she would need a medical screening. She showed up in the hospital parking garage at about 1 p.m., the other woman, an 18-year-old Santa Cruz woman, about 3 p.m. Both women were met by a man (allegedly Chow) who claimed to be a doctor, then led them to a utility room in the hospital where he told each woman at the two separate times he would conduct an exam. He alleged the exam had to be performed in the utility room because the hospital was busy.

The news article reports the first woman to arrive was sexually assaulted. When the second woman arrived at 3 p.m. and was taken to the utility room, she became suspicious and called police. After investigating, authorities located the Vallejo woman and determined both women were victim’s of the same man. Chow was arrested at his home in Modesto after being identified by police. He works at the hospital as a contract security supervisor.