Oakley: Bay Point Man Arrested on Attempted Lewd Conduct with a Minor

On Saturday at about 11:15PM, an Oakley Police Officer contacted the occupants in a suspicious vehicle parked on 1100 block of O’Hara Avenue at O”Hara Park School. The vehicle was occupied by a 24-year-old man and a female juvenile.

Following an investigation by the officer, the man was arrested for communicating and meeting with a minor with intent to commit a lewd act (PC 288.3(a) and 288.4).

288.3.  (a) Every person who contacts or communicates with a minor,
or attempts to contact or communicate with a minor, who knows or
reasonably should know that the person is a minor, with intent to
commit an offense specified in Section 207, 209, 261, 264.1, 273a,
286, 288, 288a, 288.2, 289, 311.1, 311.2, 311.4 or 311.11 involving
the minor shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for
the term prescribed for an attempt to commit the intended offense.

288.4.  (a) (1) Every person who, motivated by an unnatural or
abnormal sexual interest in children, arranges a meeting with a minor
or a person he or she believes to be a minor for the purpose of
exposing his or her genitals or pubic or rectal area, having the
child expose his or her genitals or pubic or rectal area, or engaging
in lewd or lascivious behavior, shall be punished by a fine not
exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), by imprisonment in a county
jail not exceeding one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment.
   (2) Every person who violates this subdivision after a prior
conviction for an offense listed in subdivision (c) of Section 290
shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison.
   (b) Every person described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) who
goes to the arranged meeting place at or about the arranged time,
shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three,
or four years.
   (c) Nothing in this section shall preclude or prohibit prosecution
under any other provision of law.

The man is identified Jonathan Ramirez of Bay Point. He was booked into the main jail and held in lieu of $40,000 bail. He has since bailed out according to Oakley Police Sergeant Steve Perata.

The girls age was not provided by Oakley Police.