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Authorities announced Thursday that a grand jury in Paterson had returned an indictment charging Julio Mejia, 41, of Wharton with several counts of sexual assaulting a minor passenger in his vehicle in Prospect Park sometime between Aug. 30 and Sept. 21, 2019.
“At the time of his arrest [January 2020], Mr. Mejia was an active member of the armed services,” Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said in a brief statement.
She didn’t say which branch nor which ride-share company Mejia worked for, nor how either handled him following his arrest.
Valdes did say that a Superior Court judge in Paterson refused to order Mejia held.
The indictment charges him with two counts of second-degree sexual assault, two of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact and one each of child endangerment and luring/enticing a minor.
An arraignment date on the indictment had yet to be scheduled, Valdes said.
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