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Former Pelham Middle School Teacher Charged
in Federal Court for Enticement of a Minor
LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, announced that GREGG M. CAVALUZZI,
34, a former Pelham middle school teacher, has been arrested for
enticement of a minor.
According to the Complaint filed yesterday in White
Plains federal court and statements at CAVALUZZI’s presentment
yesterday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge PAUL E. DAVISON:
From approximately May 19 through May 31, 2009, CAVALUZZI
had numerous recorded telephone conversations and text message
exchanges with a police officer from the Westchester County Police
Department who was posing as a 15-year-old girl. During the
telephone conversations and text message exchanges, CAVALUZZI and
the undercover police officer discussed meeting to engage in sexual
activity. CAVALUZZI was arrested in the early morning of May 31,
2009, in Elmsford, New York, as he was driving to the purported
minor’s home to pick her up to engage in sexual activity.
Following his presentment in White Plains federal court
yesterday CAVALUZZI was ordered detained pending trial. If
convicted of the offense for which he was arrested, CAVALUZZI faces
a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life
imprisonment.
Mr. DASSIN praised the efforts and assistance of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Westchester County Police
Department.
Assistant United States Attorney KATHRYN M. MARTIN is in
charge of the prosecution.
The charges contained in the Complaint are merely
accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and
until proven guilty.
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