{"id":72534,"date":"2016-08-27T01:56:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T05:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=72534"},"modified":"2016-08-27T00:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T04:00:39","slug":"east-syracuse-man-arrested-while-enroute-to-meet-underage-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=72534","title":{"rendered":"East Syracuse man arrested while enroute to meet underage female"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=72535\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72535\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-72535\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Melvin-Steven-139x150.jpg?resize=139%2C150\" alt=\"Melvin, Steven\" width=\"139\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Melvin-Steven.jpg?resize=139%2C150&amp;ssl=1 139w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Melvin-Steven.jpg?resize=279%2C300&amp;ssl=1 279w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Melvin-Steven.jpg?resize=400%2C431&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Melvin-Steven.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><\/a>On Aug. 24, 2016, \u00a055-year-old, Steven J. Melvin, from 5017 James St., East Syracuse, was arrested while he was en route to meet what he believed was a 15-year-old female for a possible sexual encounter. Melvin was arrested for the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(1) count of Attempted Disseminating Indecent Material to a Child, a class \u201cE\u201d felony<\/li>\n<li>(1) count of Endangering the welfare of a child, a class \u201cA\u201d misdemeanor<\/li>\n<li>(1) count of Forcible Touching, a class \u201cA\u201d misdemeanor<\/li>\n<li>(1) count of Unlawfully Dealing with a Minor in the 1st degree, a class \u201cA\u201d misdemeanor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This investigation began when the mother of a female child contacted police and alleged that Melvin gave her <!--more-->daughter alcohol and forcibly touched her in a sexual manner while at a residence in the Town of Dewitt Aug. 20, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>State Police initiated an undercover online operation which resulted in Melvin\u2019s arrest for attempted disseminating indecent material to a child on today\u2019s date. Melvin was arraigned in the Town of Salina and remanded to the Onondaga County Justice Center in lieu of cash bail. The victim has been offered services though the McMahon Ryan Child Advocacy Center.<\/p>\n<p>This investigation was conducted by the Troop D Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the FBI and the collaborative efforts of the Mid State Child Exploitation Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information pertaining to Steven J. Melvin is encouraged to contact the State Police at 315-455-2922.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 24, 2016, \u00a055-year-old, Steven J. Melvin, from 5017 James St., East Syracuse, was arrested while he was en route to meet what he believed was a 15-year-old female for a possible sexual encounter. Melvin was arrested for the following: (1) count of Attempted Disseminating Indecent Material to a Child, a class \u201cE\u201d felony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-iRU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Melvin-Steven.jpg?fit=480%2C517&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}