He’s being held on $350,000 bond at the Volusia County Branch Jail, records show. Multiple deputies, detectives and at least one K-9 unit were waiting for Donato’s arrival, as seen on body-camera video of the 29-year-old’s arrest that the sheriff’s office has since made public.ĭonato was booked just after midnight and faces charges of showing obscene material to a minor, promoting the sexual performance of a child, using a computer to solicit a child, traveling to meet after using a computer to solicit a child, unlawful use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony and two counts of lewd or lascivious battery on a child. The detective who assumed the victim’s place in the conversation arranged for that third meeting, as Donato was led to believe, the sheriff’s office said. Further review of the girl’s phone revealed the conversation and “an ongoing series of sexually explicit messages and descriptions of what they’d done” contained therein, the sheriff’s office said.Īlso seen in the messages was Donato’s interest in meeting again with the 12-year-old, following two previous rendezvous July 10 and 12 which investigators tied Donato to via the victim’s statements and county license plate readers, according to the release. Investigators said they were made aware of Donato on Friday after the girl’s family found out she had shared videos from her phone of sex acts with the 29-year-old. The girl told detectives that she thought she was chatting with a 17-year-old named Brandon Smith. The two had met on a different app called “Wink,” what the sheriff’s office referenced as “a social networking and friendship app for kids 13 and up that has been described as ‘Tinder for teens,’” according to the release. Those pretenses were influenced by undercover investigators within the sheriff’s office when a detective took the girl’s place Saturday in an ongoing conversation she and Donato were having on Instagram, the release states. – A 29-year-old Cocoa Beach man accused of portraying himself as a minor online to have sex with a 12-year-old girl was arrested Saturday by Volusia County deputies after a detective reportedly assumed a false identity of their own to lure him in.īrandon Donato was handcuffed around 10:15 p.m., having been met with law enforcement in a Deltona parking lot that he drove to under pretenses he would be meeting the young victim to have sex with her for a third time, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. Order the arts license plate and let your support show wherever you go.DELTONA, Fla. Help Volusia County stay on the road to success in the arts. O buy the arts plate at any time other than your renewal time, simply visit your local tag office, turn in your current plate, and receive your new one on the spot. Through this fund, the County offers a Mini-Grant opportunity to qualified non-profit and government entities “to support arts organizations, arts programs, and arts activities” in Volusia County. $20 from each license plate sold comes back to Volusia County to be used in various cultural programming. This year, choose Florida’s "State of the Arts" license plate and help fund important programs in Volusia County. $20 from each license plate sold comes back to the Cultural Council of Volusia County to be used in various cultural programming. The drive is on to support the arts in Volusia County.
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