Kenny Guido
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A Massapequa Park man was arrested Tuesday for sodomizing a 15-year-old boy that he met in an Internet chat room, Suffolk police said.
Kenneth Holleman, 44, was arrested yesterday morning at his Primrose Avenue home for an alleged incident that took place in his SUV in a Copiague parking lot. According to police, the pair were first discovered in an SUV parked in an empty Target parking lot at 4:45 a.m. Sunday morning. When approached by officers both said nothing was going on and the boy was taken to his parents’ Lindenhurst home.
After learning that Holleman, a self-employed disc jockey, had prior arrests involving underage boys, detectives re-interviewed the boy and learned they had engaged in sex. Police said that the two had met earlier that night in an Internet chat room and had arranged to meet, with Holleman picking the boy up a few blocks from his house.
Holleman was charged with third-degree sodomy and endangering the welfare of a child. He was arraigned today at First District Court in Central Islip.
The car looked suspicious because it was in an empty Target parking lot in Copiague, long after the store had closed.
When Suffolk police pulled closer, about 4:45 a.m. on Sunday, they found Kenneth Holleman, 44, inside with a 15-year-old boy. Both were fully clothed, and denied impropriety. With an absence of evidence, police returned the boy to his parents, who never knew he had left their house in Lindenhurst, and Holleman was allowed to go.
Two days later, however, detectives confronted Holleman about the incident a second time, this time at his home at 131 Primrose Ave. in Massapequa Park, and arrested him on charges of third-degree sodomy and endangering the welfare of a child.
The case turned when detectives reinterviewed the boy, who is not being named because of his age. They also learned Holleman is a registered "Level Two" sex offender - meaning his name and address was given to "vulnerable entities," such as schools - who pleaded guilty in 1999 to having pornographic material of a child. He was arrested again in July in Nassau County on the same charge and that case is pending, said Rick Hinshaw, a spokesman for the Nassau County district attorney's office. The July arrest was a violation of a 5-year probation sentence set after the conviction for the 1999 offense.
Holleman's lawyer, Thomas Liotti of Garden City, insisted there was no sexual contact between the two when police found them on Sunday. They had met hours earlier in an Internet chat room, Liotti said, and the boy then called Holleman, who is single, lives by himself and works as a DJ. Holleman picked up the boy in his SUV near the boy's home.
"They met just to talk and see where it went from there," Liotti said. "But they hadn't gotten to the point where it went anywhere."
The boy told detectives, however, that he and Holleman had engaged in a sexual act inside the vehicle, First Squad Det. Lt. James Maher said.
Holleman was arraigned yesterday in First District Court in Central Islip and is being held at the Suffolk County jail on $1-million bail. His next court date is scheduled for Monday.
Kenneth Holleman, 44, was arrested yesterday morning at his Primrose Avenue home for an alleged incident that took place in his SUV in a Copiague parking lot. According to police, the pair were first discovered in an SUV parked in an empty Target parking lot at 4:45 a.m. Sunday morning. When approached by officers both said nothing was going on and the boy was taken to his parents’ Lindenhurst home.
After learning that Holleman, a self-employed disc jockey, had prior arrests involving underage boys, detectives re-interviewed the boy and learned they had engaged in sex. Police said that the two had met earlier that night in an Internet chat room and had arranged to meet, with Holleman picking the boy up a few blocks from his house.
Holleman was charged with third-degree sodomy and endangering the welfare of a child. He was arraigned today at First District Court in Central Islip.
The car looked suspicious because it was in an empty Target parking lot in Copiague, long after the store had closed.
When Suffolk police pulled closer, about 4:45 a.m. on Sunday, they found Kenneth Holleman, 44, inside with a 15-year-old boy. Both were fully clothed, and denied impropriety. With an absence of evidence, police returned the boy to his parents, who never knew he had left their house in Lindenhurst, and Holleman was allowed to go.
Two days later, however, detectives confronted Holleman about the incident a second time, this time at his home at 131 Primrose Ave. in Massapequa Park, and arrested him on charges of third-degree sodomy and endangering the welfare of a child.
The case turned when detectives reinterviewed the boy, who is not being named because of his age. They also learned Holleman is a registered "Level Two" sex offender - meaning his name and address was given to "vulnerable entities," such as schools - who pleaded guilty in 1999 to having pornographic material of a child. He was arrested again in July in Nassau County on the same charge and that case is pending, said Rick Hinshaw, a spokesman for the Nassau County district attorney's office. The July arrest was a violation of a 5-year probation sentence set after the conviction for the 1999 offense.
Holleman's lawyer, Thomas Liotti of Garden City, insisted there was no sexual contact between the two when police found them on Sunday. They had met hours earlier in an Internet chat room, Liotti said, and the boy then called Holleman, who is single, lives by himself and works as a DJ. Holleman picked up the boy in his SUV near the boy's home.
"They met just to talk and see where it went from there," Liotti said. "But they hadn't gotten to the point where it went anywhere."
The boy told detectives, however, that he and Holleman had engaged in a sexual act inside the vehicle, First Squad Det. Lt. James Maher said.
Holleman was arraigned yesterday in First District Court in Central Islip and is being held at the Suffolk County jail on $1-million bail. His next court date is scheduled for Monday.