September 30, 2009
Gary Davidson
Public Information Officer

DELTONA MAN CHARGED WITH FONDLING TEENAGE GIRL

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office has filed criminal charges against a 29-year-old Deltona man accused of drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana with two teenage girls and kissing and fondling one of the teens. And now investigators want to know if there are other victims out there who came into contact with Jean Garcia.

Two girls, ages 15 and 16, told investigators that Garcia would frequently drive past as they walked to school, waving and honking his car horn. Early one morning in May, the girls said they accepted a ride from Garcia and he took them to a house in Deltona where they smoked marijuana and drank alcohol. Afterwards, Garcia dropped the girls off at school, but he came back that afternoon after school let out and picked them up. The three then went to a park in Enterprise, and it was there that Garcia is accused of kissing the 15-year-old girl and fondling her breasts over her clothes. The incident was reported to the Sheriff’s Office the next day.

When questioned by investigators with the Sheriff’s Office’s Sex Crimes Unit, Garcia initially denied knowing the girls, giving them a ride or going to the park with them. He later changed his story and admitted giving the girls a ride and being kissed one time by one of the girls, but insisted nothing else happened. However, investigators noted that Garcia’s story was inconsistent in many of the details. On Tuesday, investigators obtained an arrest warrant from Circuit Court Judge Frank Marriott charging Garcia with lewd or lascivious conduct and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child. Garcia is currently incarcerated in Orange County on a sexual battery charge.

Anyone with information regarding Garcia or who may have been a victim is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Office at (386) 736-5979.