Neighbor records man, 89, sexually victimizing 15-year-old boy in Little Havana, cops say

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MIAMI – A neighbor caught a Miami octogenarian sexually victimizing a teenage boy at an apartment building, recorded it and then called police, according to an arrest report.

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Police arrested suspect Esteban Nicodemo Puentes-Gonzalez, 89, on two felony charges Thursday.

According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, the neighbor called police after witnessing Puentes-Gonzalez “having a 15-year-old minor inappropriately touch his penis” at the bottom of a stairwell at an apartment building at 879 SW Third St. in the city’s Little Havana neighborhood.

The neighbor recorded what happened and showed officers, the report states.

Authorities said the victim, who has known Puentes-Gonzalez since he was 2, was “nonverbal” and communicated with officers through a note in Spanish.

Puentes-Gonzalez declined to speak with officers without an attorney, police said.

A judge found probable cause Friday to charge the Cuban national with one count of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child and one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition on a child, setting his bond at $15,000.


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