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Ruskin man arrested on sex assault charge
By Times Staff
Published January 17, 2006
TAMPA - A Ruskin man charged with sexually battering a 14-year-old girl will remain in jail after Hillsborough Chief Judge Manuel Menendez on Monday ordered he be held without bail.
Daniel Rivera, 33, was arrested Sunday afternoon and charged with one count of sexual battery on a custodial or family member.
According to an arrest affidavit, Rivera entered the girl's bedroom while she was sleeping, put his hand over her mouth and assaulted her. Rivera's relationship to the girl is being withheld to protect her identity.
This is Rivera's first arrest in Florida, state records show.
Robber takes purse of 82-year-old
TEMPLE TERRACE - Police are seeking a man suspected of knocking an 82-year-old woman to the ground Monday and snatching her purse outside a CVS Pharmacy.
A passenger jumped out of an older-model blue car outside the store at 5502 Fowler Ave., toppled the woman and took her handbag.
The woman received injuries to her face, police said.
Temple Terrace police described the suspect as a dark-skinned male, possibly Hispanic, age 21 to 30, about 6 feet tall, wearing blue jeans and white and blue Reebok tennis shoes.
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