Crime & Safety

Police Seeking Additional Victims Of Accused Child Molester In Mtn. View

BREAKING: The 73-year-old man, arrested last month, was former manager at California Street apartment complex.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Mountain View detectives are asking for the public’s help in locating any additional victims of a man arrested last month for suspected child molestation.

Donald Lawrence, 73, the former apartment manager at the Arbor Apartments complex on the 2000 block of California Street, was arrested in late September on three counts of suspicion of committing oral copulation with a child, the department said.

The incidents, which occurred several years ago, were brought to light last month, police said.

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Lawrence, who was living out-of-state at the time of his arrest, was extradited to California and is currently held without bail at the Santa Clara County Jail.

"We are asking that anyone who has any information on this case, or if they may have been a victim of Lawrence or know of someone who may have been a victim, to please contact Mountain View Detective Marco Garcia at 650-903-6344," the department said.

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