{"id":133333,"date":"2024-04-22T09:54:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133333"},"modified":"2024-04-22T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T13:54:44","slug":"pinellas-park-police-officers-arrest-57-year-old-man-for-child-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133333","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas Park Police Officers Arrest 57-Year-Old Man for Child Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-133319\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Joseph-Valtre-640x801.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Joseph-Valtre-640x801.jpg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Joseph-Valtre-128x160.jpg 128w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Joseph-Valtre.jpg 712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>JOSEPH VELTRE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pinellas Park, FL &#8211; On the evening of Wednesday, April 10, 2024, Pinellas Park Police<br \/>\nOfficers responded to a disturbing incident at Helen Howarth Park (6301 94th<br \/>\nAve N, Pinellas Park). Witnesses reported a man following three young children and making inappropriate comments to them. The man was identified as <strong>Joseph Veltre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During the investigation, it was determined <strong>Veltre <\/strong>continuously followed three<br \/>\nyoung children within the park and made inappropriate and lewd comments to<br \/>\nthem by asking if he could masturbate in front of them. <strong>Veltre<\/strong> was taken into<br \/>\ncustody by officers on scene and charged with child abuse, aggravated stalking<br \/>\nof a child under 16, and traveling to meet a minor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At the time of the arrest, <strong>Veltre<\/strong> was on bond for lewd and lascivious<br \/>\nexhibition to an elderly adult or disabled person. He is also a registered sex<br \/>\noffender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOSEPH VELTRE \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pinellas Park, FL &#8211; On the evening of Wednesday, April 10, 2024, Pinellas Park Police Officers responded to a disturbing incident at Helen Howarth Park (6301 94th Ave N, Pinellas Park). Witnesses reported a man following three young children and making inappropriate comments to them. The man was identified as Joseph Veltre. [&hellip;]<\/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-133333","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\/133333","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=133333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133335,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133333\/revisions\/133335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}