A 54-year old Woodcrest man was arrested Oct. 29 in an investigation into a report of inappropriate contact between a music teacher and two young children, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office.
On Oct. 18, deputies from the Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s Station responded to a residence in La Cresta regarding the report. The Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit took over the investigation and identified the suspect as 54-year-old Omar Garcia Herrada, a professional music teacher from Woodcrest, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Investigators from the Special Victims Unit, with assistance from the Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s Station Investigation Bureau, served the search warrant on Oct. 29 in the 14000 block of El Mesa Drive in Woodcrest. Herrada was found and taken into custody without incident, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The Sheriff’s Office said Herrada was booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center on sexual assault and child sexual abuse charges.
The investigation is ongoing, and the Special Victims Unit believes there may be additional victims, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Anyone with information about the investigation is asked to contact Master Investigator Schell at 951-955-1704 or Sheriff’s Dispatch at 951-776-1099.
