Three more men have been arrested in connection with a statutory rape investigation that earlier landed a former College Park police officer behind bars, Villa Rica police said.
Cody Celotto, 21, of Dallas, Ga., faces a charge of enticing a minor for indecent purposes. Daniel Rudd, 27, of Douglasville, was charged with statutory rape and enticing a minor for indecent purposes. And Stephen Loggins, 19, also of Douglasville, was charged with two counts of statutory rape and two counts of enticing a minor for indecent purposes.
“But there are (five) additional arrests that are yet to be made,” Villa Rica Capt. Keith Shaddix told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday.
The investigation involves two 15-year-old girls claiming to be 18- and 20-year-olds on Internet dating sites, Shaddix said.
Shaddix said men on the sites were contacted by the girls for sex.
David Stephen Block, a former College Park police officer, allegedly picked up one of the girls from her neighborhood and took her to a Villa Rica hotel, police said.
Block, 25, resigned April 4, just two days after the investigation began.
He was arrested April 14 on charges of statutory rape, sodomy and enticing a child.
Block had been employed by the department for less than a year, College Park police Chief Keith Meadows said. The department did not know that Block was being investigated or charged until several days after his arrest.
Block has since been released from the Carroll County jail on a $65,000 bond.
“As a decorated law enforcement officer, who comes from a family of people who have served our community by wearing ‘the blue,’ Officer Block strongly believes in the criminal justice system, particularly that every person is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt,” a statement from Block’s lawyer, Jason Swindle, read.
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