FREMONT — A 14-year-old woman was strolling house from highschool in February, when a person allegedly known as out to her. Later that day, a neighbor discovered a observe subsequent to a tree close to her house.
“I’m the good-looking Latino man who mentioned hello within the automobile,” the observe learn. “Right here is my hook up, adopted by a cellphone quantity.”
The neighbor finally turned the observe over to police, who hatched a ruse: Pose because the woman and speak to the person, and see what his intentions had been.
When police recognized the observe’s author as 49-year-old Ruben Ramos, of San Jose, they found he was labeled a “excessive threat” intercourse offender with a 2018 indecent publicity conviction. In conversations with the undercover officer who texted him, Ramos allegedly requested to satisfy up for numerous sexual acts and despatched the “woman” an image of his genitals after she informed him she was 16 years previous.
“I would like u to kick it within the automobile with me for 10 min. however at any time when u really feel that's good (sic),” one textual content message allegedly mentioned.
As their conversations progressed, Ramos mentioned renting a lodge in Fremont for them, requested for bare footage of her a number of instances, and informed the woman to chop class so they might meet up. He was arrested Feb. 24, after leaving his San Jose house and heading to Fremont for his or her deliberate rendezvous, in response to Fremont police.
Throughout a police interview, Ramos allegedly informed police that a buddy named “Drew” had really hacked and/or stolen his cellphone and was chargeable for speaking to the woman. However then investigators knowledgeable him that he’d been beneath police surveillance throughout among the conversations.
After that, Ramos allegedly mentioned, “partially it's me, however there was anyone concerned, however I’m gonna take the blame for it,” a Fremont police investigator mentioned in courtroom information.
Ramos was charged Feb. 28 with contacting a minor to commit a intercourse crime and sending dangerous materials to a minor, each felonies. Fremont police introduced the arrest Thursday in a information launch. He's in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin in lieu of $325,000 bail and his subsequent courtroom date has been set for Monday, information present.