Crime & Safety
Santa Rosa to Salinas a Long Way to Go to Get Arrested
A 24-year old Santa Rosa man posted an ad for teen sex on the Internet, and got a response. Guess who was waiting on the other end of the drive?
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office released an arrest report today about an action early this morning in Salinas, at 1:51 a.m.
Members of their Special Enforcement Detail and Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team learned of a male advertising on an internet bulletin board for “High-School, Teen Girls”.
Posing as a 13-year-old girl from Salinas, deputies made online contact with the male, Bogdan Pavlov Trakov, 24, of Santa Rosa.
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Trakov agreed to drive from his home in Santa Rosa to Salinas, almost 160 miles, to engage in lewd acts with whom he believed to be a 13-year-old girl. He agreed to meet the girl at a local business and then go to a local hotel, and to provide the minor with marijuana prior to engaging in sexual activity.
Trakov arrived at the agreed location near several fast-food restaurants at 1570 Constitution Blvd., Salinas. Deputy Bryan Hoskins reported that he was met by several male law enforcement officers, instead of the 13-year old girl he was expecting, and was taken into custody without incident.
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