MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 27-year-old South Florida man is facing a felony charge after police said he molested a teenage girl who ran away from home.
According to Miami-Dade police, Leonel Keenan Labranche was on house arrest when he drove up to the 13-year-old, who was walking along the street after running away on Jan. 9 , and invited her into his home on Northwest 83rd Terrace in the county’s West Little River area.
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There, police said the two smoked marijuana and the two performed sex acts on each other as she stayed at his house.
An arrest report states that Labranche took the girl to Memorial Hospital West in Pembroke Pines on Jan. 12 after he became concerned that she might have a sexually-transmitted infection.
Police said they located Labranche on Friday and he confessed to the allegations during an interview with detectives.
Labranche, whose house arrest stemmed from charges of selling cocaine and misuse of a two-way communications device, now adds a charge of lewd and lascivious molestation to his slate of charges, which also include multiple domestic violence-related felonies in connection with separate cases.
He was being held without bond in Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Monday morning.