Man suspected of sexually molesting girl at 99 Cents store is registered sex offender

ALAMEDA COUNTY, Calif. (KTVU) - On Thursday afternoon the Alameda County Sheriff's Office released details about the arrest of a man suspected of sexually molesting an 8-year old girl in the toy aisle of the 99 Cents Only Store in unincorporated Hayward.

"This is a little bit of an unusual case," Alameda County Sheriff's Sgt. J.D. Nelson said. "When something like this happens it's just horrible and for somebody to do that you just really want to get them into custody."

Thirty-three- year-old Carlyle Villazon is behind bars, arrested for last Sunday's assault. The sheriff's office says it's not the first time Villazon has been arrested for the sexual assault of a child. In fact, he is a registered sex offender.

In 2010 there was an eerily similar case at a Walmart in San Leandro. Nelson said in that case Villazon also approached a girl in the toy aisle.

"He grabbed an 8-year old girl, put his hands down her pants, and she went and told her mother," Nelson explained. In that case he was caught right away.

"As he was leaving the store he was tackled by a Good Samaritan." Villazon was recently paroled for that case when he allegedly walked into the 99 Cents Only Store last Sunday and assaulted yet another 8-year old girl.

In the most recent case, investigators released a surveillance photo and composite sketch, but it was good police work that helped narrow the search. An Oakland police sergeant searched a data base of sex offenders, without being asked by Alameda County Sheriff's detectives. Nelson said that sergeant's search helped nab the suspect. "The tracking system, and he (Villazon) had an ankle bracelet, put him in the 99 Cent Only Store at the exact time the crime occurred." Nelson said it was a perfect example of different law enforcement departments helping one another.

Shoppers at the 99 Cents Only Store expressed relief that there is an arrest, but concern too. "There is an element in the neighborhood," one woman said uneasily. "But you're going to find that anywhere."