Suspect Arrested for Attempting to Lure Child with Tobacco Products
Source: Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff’s detectives are investigating a suspect who was arrested last week after he attempted to lure a 12-year-old into sexual acts in exchange for flavored tobacco products. On Tuesday, October 20, 2020, Sheriff’s deputies responded to the 1700-block of Mission Drive in Solvang on a report of a parent who was following a suspect that was stalking her child on a social media app. Deputies spoke with the reporting party who told them she had intercepted messages on a social media app from the suspect to her child, and was in the area to catch the suspect as he was planning to meet up with the child to exchange sexual acts for flavored tobacco products.
Deputies contacted the suspect, 20-year-old Angel Saloman of Solvang, in the 1700-block of Mission Drive. Saloman was arrested for arranging to meet with a minor for lewd purposes (felony), sending harmful matter to seduce a minor (felony), attempting to furnish tobacco to a minor (misdemeanor), and possession of metal knuckles (felony). He is being held on $100,000 bail.
This case has been forwarded to Sheriff’s detectives for follow-up and remains under investigation. Anyone with additional information about this suspect is encouraged to contact Detective Rivlin at (805)686-8154 or by email at [email protected] . If you prefer to remain anonymous, you can provide information by calling our tip line at (805)681-4171 or online at SBSheriff.org.
The Sheriff’s Office would like to remind parents about the lure of flavored tobacco and the importance of monitoring social media platforms. This suspect’s predatory attempt was thwarted by a diligent parent who intercepted messages on Snapchat. Addictive flavored tobacco products that are aimed at child consumers who cannot legally purchase them can be used as a commodity to lure children into dangerous acts. For more information about online child safety, please visit the Federal Trade Commission’s website. The Sheriff’s Office participates in the State of California Department of Justice’s tobacco grant aimed at promoting a healthier California by reducing illegal sales and marketing of cigarettes and tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to minors. You can read more about the dangers of tobacco use by children at tobaccofreeca.com.
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Oct 29, 2020 03:50 PMtried to lure a 12 year old girl to have sex with him ... in exchange for a puff bar. What a sicko
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Oct 29, 2020 03:57 PMIck poor kid this guy needs to be off the streets.
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Oct 29, 2020 11:01 PMcould have also been after a 12 year old boy..what makes you think it was a girl?
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Oct 30, 2020 03:47 PMSorry for misgendering the unknown child. Wanna fight online about it? lmao
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Oct 30, 2020 12:10 AMKudos to the parent who prevented this assault on her child.
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Oct 30, 2020 11:28 AMIs that you LRBR?
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Oct 30, 2020 04:35 PMHa ha! I'd forgotten all about LRBR. Good call.
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Oct 30, 2020 05:08 PMAccording to federal law, 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506 ("Children's Online Privacy Protection Act"), children under age 13 must have consent from a parent or guardian to use social media. Here's a great example why they needed to write that law, and it's a shame that some parents are quick to dismiss it as little more than a suggestion. If that's how you're going to raise your child, then you might as well take the tobacco laws as a suggestion too, and just buy the kid their own vape pen and cut out the middle-man, in this case a pedo who needs to rot in jail for a time and then undergo castration.
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Nov 02, 2020 03:56 PMUmmm... Watermelon and pomegranate...