HIALEAH, Fla. – Andy Santana stands accused of having an unlawful four-month sexual relationship with a teenage boy that involved abuse and drugs.
A 17-year-old boy reported Santana, 33, reached out to him on Instagram, and after the two messaged for a while, he picked him up on May 12 in a white 2019 Nissan Altima, where the sexual abuse started, according to police.
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The teen reported the unlawful sexual activity — which sometimes included bleeding, handcuffs, and ignoring his pleas to stop — continued at the home where he lives with his mother and at Santana’s apartment, according to police. The teen accused Santana of offering him alkyl nitrites, a drug known as “poppers.”
The teen told a detective that after their relationship ended, Santana handed him a vape and told him to smoke it without letting him know that it had marijuana, which impaired him just before the last unlawful sexual activity the two had on Sept. 15 in the car’s back seat, police said.
According to an arrest report, police officers detained Santana shortly before midnight on Wednesday at his apartment at West 12 Street and First Avenue in Hialeah. A detective questioned him at the police department’s headquarters on Thursday morning but he refused to comment on the victim’s photographic evidence, and police officers arrested him.
According to inmate records, correctional officers booked Santana shortly before 4 a.m., on Thursday, at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained on Friday afternoon. He is facing charges of unlawful sexual activity with a minor, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. His bond was $8,000.