Man suspected of kidnapping, molesting 4 girls in Mid-City held on $4-million bail
A two-year manhunt for a man who kidnapped and molested four girls in the Mid-City neighborhood of Los Angeles has ended in the arrest of a 41-year-old Hollywood man, police officials said Tuesday.
Daniel Merino was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping for sexual assault after detectives scoured thousands of license plates recorded by the Los Angeles Police Department's new license plate-reading vehicles. Through that search, they found a match to a car that possibly belonged to the suspect.
Detectives from the robbery-homicide division staked out the block where the car was located in 600 block of North Kingsley Drive. On Jan. 29, they spotted Merino getting into the car and driving into a parking garage.
Eight hours later, detectives arrested him and found evidence that they said connected him to the four attacks. He is being held on $4-million bail.
-- Richard Winton
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WAKE UP AMERICA!!
all this tme and money spent, just for us to let him go and a slap on the wrist and tell him not to do it again.
Wha a joke and a waste of tax payers monies. No wonder we are so broke.
Desparate times ask for desparate measures so lets get the death penalty back on track. That way we can be sure that this man will NEVER do this again.
Posted by: A Concerned American | February 02, 2010 at 03:05 PM
Good detective work LAPD!
Posted by: Delia | February 02, 2010 at 03:07 PM
Why do we give automatic citizenship to the children of illegals ?
Citizenship is for people who follow the rules, not for
people who break them !
Let's do what Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand
have done--do away with this "perverse incentive" !!
Posted by: Manny Menendez | February 02, 2010 at 03:43 PM
good luck in prison..they're gonna wipe the floor with you Daniel Merino..rot in pieces
Posted by: freddy please | February 02, 2010 at 05:01 PM
This man was a co-worker of mine. It makes me sick to think he was so close to me. He seemed like a normal family man, goes to show... your really never know a person. he deserves what he gets and more! I feel sorry for his kids and the kids he has hurt!
Posted by: Co-Worker | February 04, 2010 at 09:15 AM