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Undercover cops have nabbed another would-be pedophile who thought he was meeting a minor for a sexual rendezvous. This time the alleged perv is an executive for the Gristedes supermarket chain, 59-year-old Michael Seltzer. Investigators say Seltzer, the chain's treasurer, had been exchanging salacious online messages with the "teen" for about a year and was finally supposed to meet her for the first time on Tuesday for a sexual encounter in Douglaston. But the 14-year-old girl didn't actually exist, and Seltzer, using the irresistible screen name LOVE775419, had been communicating with undercover cops the entire time. He was arrested when he approached an undercover female officer, and police have seized computers at his home and at Gristedes' Manhattan headquarters. Seltzer is being charged with attempted rape and could face up to four years in prison, the Daily News reports. And back in 1999, Seltzer was arrested for attempting to bribe a tax warrant investigator in return for eliminating nearly $200,000 in outstanding City and State taxes owed by the supermarket chain.
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What a piece of dirt - I hope he gets the max (and that still won't be enough, I'm sure).
catsimitidis (gristedes ceo) for president!
Not that this guy isn't a "scumbag," but these stings (and Dateline's) now seem ineffective, expensive, and unfair.
I'm with you. Attempted rape??
That's probably attempted statutory rape. Doesn't matter if a 14-year-old girl actually agrees to do it with you. She's still below the age of consent and it's still statutory rape.
I don't understand the attraction to such young girls. I don't even find 21-year-olds especially attractive nowadays.
If I rape an imaginary person who I didn't know was imaginary am I charged with rape?
"That's probably attempted statutory rape."
Colloquially, yes. There's no distinction, though, in New York State law between "rape" and "statutory rape". In general, a person under 17 is considered incapable of consent so the charge would simply be some degree of rape.
Regarding this particular case, if a person over 18 has sex with a person under 15 the applicable charge is rape in the second degree. So that's likely what he's charged with "attempting." He was also charged with attempted dissemination of indecent materials to a minor and attempted endangering the welfare of a minor.
Yeah really! How much of the taxpayer's money does it cost to pay somebody full time to sit around and chat online with pervs?
it took a year to snag him?
did he really think a 14yo would want to have sex with a 59yo? because during that year age has to come up.
so it's like...
how old are you? 14
you? 59
too old??
nah, I like mature guys. you're not that old.
You forgot the part where she ask if he was filthy rich or just filthy.
Why did it take a year for him to finally met the "girl"? Why didn't the undercover cop plan a meeting much earlier?
It never ceases to amaze me that someone spent a year pretending to be a 14 yo girl while writing dirty messages to a stranger. For their job. I chose the wrong career path.
oh, they're just being themselves!! you should see the UCs at demonstrations where they act like they are at a keg party trying to rile the crowd - as though no one would notice that they really are idiot goombas from LI or rockland county! absolutely pathetic!
but, ya know, they gotta, like, you know, *pore* over the evidence and, uh, you know, connect the dots and all that shit. fools!
haha, like they think their white nikes, stoned washed jeans and untucked athletic jersey don't give them away.
the minority undercovers are much harder to spot, that's why they're the one's in most danger and are shot at by their own.
go on a narcotics grand jury and you'll see them all.
Ugh. This stuff makes me sick. Not that the guy isn't a scumbag, but scumbag and pedophile are not the same thing. If it had been a real girl all they could have gotten him on is statutory, no? Cops are really spending time and energy on this crap?
So they arrest him for attempting to have sex with a fictional character. Next up, Donald Westlake arrested for all the murders committed in his novels.
will that be paper or plastic?
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go get a hooker you sick old pervert leave the kids alone
He likes fresh fruit.