Coach-Teacher Indicted In Sex Sting
Posted on Friday, 26 of June , 2009 at 4:50 pm
WESTCHESTER—Gregg Cavaluzzi, a former social studies teacher in the Pelham Middle School and former Pleasantville lacrosse coach, has been indicted by a federal grand jury of attempting to entice a minor to meet with him for the purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse.
Cavaluzzi, 34, of Yorktown was arrested on May 31 in Elmsford Elmsford when he arrived for a meeting with an underaged girl that he had arranged on the Internet. However, the “15-year-old girl” was a detective with the Westchester County Police Internet Crimes Squad.
Police said that Cavaluzzi had been using the screen name Instructor4 and was allegedly sending sexually explicit messages and photos to what he thought was a 15-year-old girl through a chat room known as FamilyLove. Police said that when the “girl” tried to arrange for a meeting at a hotel, Cavaluzzi refused but agreed to meet the girl at an address in Elmsford which he thought was the girl’s home.
The complaint filed against Cavaluzzi says that he began having contact with undercover officers who were posing as young girls back in January 2008.
If convicted, Cavaluzzi faces a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 10 years and a maximum term of imprisonment of life. 6-26-09
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