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KATELYN GOMEZ<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last Wednesday, detectives arrested a Juvenile Justice Detention Center Sergeant for soliciting sexual activity with a juvenile inmate.<\/p>\n Detectives responded to the Pinellas Regional Juvenile Detention Center, Throughout the course of the investigation, detectives learned that 27-year-old, \u00a0Sergeant Katelyn Gomez <\/strong>wrote the letters.<\/p>\n The letters explicitly described what would take place during their first sexual encounter and described an ongoing relationship, which had developed while the victim was incarcerated. There was also a photo of Gomez <\/strong>in the victim’s cell.<\/p>\n Detectives said Gomez <\/strong>was hired as a Sergeant on January 5, 2024, and was Detectives interviewed Gomez,<\/strong> who admitted to writing the letters to the Gomez <\/strong>was arrested and charged with one count of solicitation of a child to The investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KATELYN GOMEZ \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last Wednesday, detectives arrested a Juvenile Justice Detention Center Sergeant for soliciting sexual activity with a juvenile inmate. Detectives responded to the Pinellas Regional Juvenile Detention Center, 5255 140th Avenue, North, in Clearwater, after approximately ten inappropriate letters were found in the bed of a sixteen-year-old male inmate. Throughout the course of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132721,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132719\/revisions\/132721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n5255 140th Avenue, North, in Clearwater, after approximately ten
\ninappropriate letters were found in the bed of a sixteen-year-old male inmate.<\/p>\n
\nassigned to the victim’s pod three weeks ago. \u00a0Additionally, Gomez <\/strong>was
\ninstructed to not be alone with the juveniles, however staff members observed
\nher one-on-one with the victim several times.<\/p>\n
\nvictim and stated she began developing a relationship with him when they met
\nat the facility several weeks ago. Gomez<\/strong> admitted that she fantasized about
\nhaving a sexual relationship with the victim and planned to build a life with
\nhim once he was released.<\/p>\n
\nengage in an act that constitutes sexual battery by a person in familial or
\ncustodial authority. She was booked into the Pinellas County Jail.<\/p>\n