Jan 22, 2013 4:20 PM
East Hampton Town Police Detective Tina Giles and East Hampton Village Police Officer Mario Julio Galeano will be honored as 2012 officers of the year at a Kiwanis awards ceremony for East End officers at the Vineyards at Aquebogue on Friday. The two differ in many respects, but both speak Spanish, and both are credited with using intuitive skills to crack sex crimes involving minors last year.
Det. Giles made an arrest last spring for statutory rape that ballooned into a months-long investigation of one man’s sexual crimes against victims as young as 9 and 10, including rape and child pornography that the detective said the defendant had recorded on a cellphone in his bedroom. Following a hunch based upon interviews in Spanish, Ms. Giles led an investigation that involved the... more
Det. Giles made an arrest last spring for statutory rape that ballooned into a months-long investigation of one man’s sexual crimes against victims as young as 9 and 10, including rape and child pornography that the detective said the defendant had recorded on a cellphone in his bedroom. Following a hunch based upon interviews in Spanish, Ms. Giles led an investigation that involved the... more
