GILROY
– City police Monday arrested a 47-year-old Pebble Beach man on
charges of kidnapping and having sexual contact with a 15-year-old
Gilroy boy he met over the Internet.
GILROY – City police Monday arrested a 47-year-old Pebble Beach man on charges of kidnapping and having sexual contact with a 15-year-old Gilroy boy he met over the Internet.
Randy Domras faces a possible life sentence in prison if found guilty of kidnapping with the intent to commit a serious sex crime. Police also charged Domras with engaging in a lewd or lascivious act with a child under 16. This second charge carries a three-year maximum prison term.
At about 7:30 p.m. Monday, a police officer found Domras and the unidentified youth in a car with steamy windows, parked at the end of a secluded cul-de-sac near the west end of Mantelli Drive. Domras had his shirt off, according to police Detective Wes Stanford, but Stanford did not say whether the officer observed any sexual behavior.
The construction area there has become a popular spot for amorous couples to park and for others to cause mischief, Stanford said, so neighbors have asked police to patrol it regularly.
Police interviewed Domras and the boy separately at the police station and pressed the charges against Domras based on what they learned. Stanford declined to give any details about the alleged kidnapping or say what kind of lewd act Domras reportedly committed with the boy.
Stanford did say the boy and Domras said they met through the Internet and that Domras gave police permission to confiscate his home computers to search for evidence. On Tuesday, Stanford said, Gilroy police went to Domras’ Pebble Beach home and took his computers and computer equipment. They need a search warrant to search these, Stanford said. If a judge grants one, the district attorney’s forensics lab staff would search the computers.
Domras was charged, according to the state Penal Code, with “kidnapping or carrying away any individual to commit robbery, rape, spousal rape, oral copulation, sodomy, or sexual penetration.”
A lewd act, according to the Penal Code, implies “the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust, passions or sexual desires of (the defendant) or the child.”
Police are still investigating the case.
Detective Stanford encourages anyone with any information about this case to call him at 846-0332.
