Man Arrested for Sexual Battery & Stalking

By KSEE News

Credit: Corcoran Police Dept.

Joseph Velasquez, 23

July 23, 2012 Updated Jul 23, 2012 at 1:39 PM PDT

(Press Release) On Saturday morning at about 10:30 a.m., Corcoran Police officers were dispatched to the 900 block of Dairy Avenue for report of a sexual battery.

When officers arrived they talked the victim who reported she was inappropriately touched by a man, who was later identified as 23-year-old Joseph Velasquez IV.

During the investigation it was also determined that Velasquez had been stalking and harassing the woman for about a year. He was located and arrested for sexual battery and stalking, and booked into the Kings County Jail, where he is being held on $125,000 bail.

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