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Fake Walmart ‘asset protection officer’ raped shopper: Cops

homesafetytechpros — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:52:53 +0000

Inset: Justin Metz (Atchison County Detention Center). Background: The Walmart store at 1920 U.S. 73 in Atchison, Kan., where Justin Metz’s alleged attack unfolded (Google Maps).

A Kansas man was arrested this week for allegedly posing as an employee for Walmart — telling a female shopper he was an “asset protection officer” and that she needed to come with him to the back of the store — where he attacked and raped her, cops say.

Justin Metz, 42, singled out the woman at a Walmart in Atchison on U.S. Route 73 earlier this month and kidnapped her under the guise of a security guard, according to the local Hays Post news website and Fox affiliates KCTV and WDAF.

Metz allegedly approached the 32-year-old shopper as she was leaving the store and told her he was an “asset protection officer” who needed to speak with her, the Atchison Police Department reports.

He led the woman to the back of the Walmart and brought her into a bathroom, where he committed the sexual assault and then proceeded to go about his day while the woman notified police, officials say. Hours later, Metz allegedly returned to the Walmart and employees called authorities after spotting him walking around the store.

Cops responded and took Metz into custody without incident and charged him with kidnapping, rape and sexual battery. Walmart sent a statement out Tuesday confirming that Metz was not an employee nor was he working as a security guard.

“The safety of customers and associates is a top priority,” the retail giant said, according to WDAF. “We acted swiftly to engage law enforcement and are working closely with them throughout this investigation.”

Metz’s attack unfolded on March 9, but wasn’t reported until Tuesday. He has yet to appear in court for his charges and is currently locked up at the Atchison County jail as police look into whether Metz has committed similar attacks on other women. A court date has not been set for him yet as the investigation continues.

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Teacher sexually assaulted minor and made him drive her car

homesafetytechpros — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:28:18 +0000

Jessica Lawson (Saint Anthony Police Department).

An Idaho teacher who admittedly sexually assaulted a teenage boy will spend up to two decades behind bars after taking a plea deal.

In August, Jessica Lawson, 36, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery of a child. On Thursday, she was sentenced by Senior District Judge Stephen Dunn to between two and 20 years in prison — where she will have to attend sex offender treatment. Upon release, Lawson will have to register as a sex offender.

The plea agreement wipes out two charges of felony rape of a minor, as well as charges of felony delivery of a controlled substance and misdemeanor dispensing alcohol to a minor.

The since-condemned woman was arrested in November 2023 after a traffic stop where law enforcement found the victim behind the wheel of his abuser’s vehicle because she was too drunk to drive herself.

The compounded crimes were remarked upon by Idaho Deputy Attorney General Madison Allen during the sentencing hearing this week, according to a courtroom report by East Idaho News.

“Jessica Lawson, who was 36 years old at the time, had an unlawful sexual relationship with a 16-year-old minor male victim when she picked him up from his home secretly without his parents’ permission,” Allen said. “She took him to her house where the two began to drink alcohol and then they engaged in sex acts together.”

The defendant’s defense attorney also briefly spoke.

“She wishes to apologize to the victim,” Allen Browning said. “She has agreed and understands that she will be going to prison. She understands that in the interest of justice, that is appropriate.”

On Nov. 6, 2023, Lawson’s vehicle was pulled over because the taillights were out. The basic traffic stop soon took on much greater importance when police found the teenager driving and the intoxicated teacher in the passenger seat.

The teenage boy would go on to tell authorities that Lawson had given him marijuana that night while she drank alcohol. He said the woman picked him up from his parent’s house around 11 p.m., and then they returned to her home, where she drank, he smoked, and they had sex.

That same night, Lawson called the minor’s parents to tell them she had taken him to her house and given him alcohol, but she did not admit to giving him marijuana or having sex with him, East Idaho News previously reported.

After being arrested, she initially pleaded not guilty.

On Thursday, the former teacher apologized to the boy and his family.

“I alone am responsible for my actions, but I believe (a prior) relationship was the catalyst that set me down the path to where I am today,” Lawson said. “I want to apologize to the victim and his family for any pain that I have caused. I want to apologize to the community and anyone I’ve let down.”

During a victim impact statement, the boy’s father discussed the long road ahead for the family going forward — noting that he and his wife adopted the victim just days before the crime.

“It takes a village to raise a young man, especially a young man that has been in and out of foster care, that has never known what it’s like to have a mom and a dad,” the boy’s father said. “My son is going to take a long time to heal and he doesn’t even know the wounds that he has yet. He’s not going to understand those wounds until he’s a parent, and he’s sending his daughter or son … to the house of a parent that he trusts.”

Brandi Buchman contributed to this report.

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Florida man squirted ‘unknown liquid’ on girl at Miami store

homesafetytechpros — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:55:34 +0000

Inset: Sean Uribe (Miami-Dade Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation). Background: Ross Dress For Less store where Uribe allegedly poured an “unknown liquid” on a girl. (Google Maps)

A 25-year-old Florida man is behind bars after he allegedly poured an “unknown liquid” on an underage girl’s buttocks at a Miami-area Ross Dress For Less.

Sean Edward Uribe is facing a felony charge of battery on a child involving bodily fluids and a misdemeanor battery charge. He also is charged with tampering with evidence, per records.

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Miami ABC affiliate WPLG obtained an arrest report that says the incident occurred June 21 at the Ross at 14840 N. Kendall Dr. The girl told Miami-Dade police that she was shopping at the store when patrons came up to her and told her that a man wearing a Miami Dolphins hat and holding a syringe squirted an unknown liquid on the back of her jean shorts and then started filming her. Witnesses reportedly told store employees of the incident who called cops. The suspect fled before deputies arrived.

Cops were also investigating a similar incident in June with a suspect wearing a Dolphins hat. Detectives reportedly identified Uribe as a suspect and obtained a search warrant at his west Miami-Dade home. Officers allegedly recovered three syringes with a “viscus white liquid, consistent with semen” inside his bedroom. They also found the same clothes surveillance video showed the suspect was wearing, the affidavit reportedly said.

Uribe was taken to Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation on Thursday. He remains there on an $8,500 bond, records show.

According to court records, Uribe was arrested June 19 — two days before the alleged incident at Ross — for a misdemeanor battery charge. He was released on his own recognizance. That case has a trial hearing scheduled for Oct. 28.

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