Crime & Safety
Perth Amboy School Security Guard Admits To Sex With Minor
Elios Arias-Aguilar, a former security guard at McGinnis Middle School in Perth Amboy, was sentenced Monday for having sex with a minor.

PERTH AMBOY, NJ — A former security guard at McGinnis Middle School in Perth Amboy was sentenced Monday to seven years in New Jersey state prison for having sex with a minor.
Elios Arias-Aguilar, 26, of Perth Amboy, is linked to multiple victims, said the Middlesex County prosecutor. Police say that he engaged in sexual intercourse at his home in Perth Amboy with a minor. He is also accused of sending nude photographs through social media to two additional minors, police said.
He pleaded guilty on January 28 of this year to one count of sexual assault in the second degree.
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When he was arrested, Arias-Aguilar was fired from his employment at the McGinnis Middle School, where he had worked as a security guard for approximately two years.
It is unknown if any of his victims were students at McGinnis Middle School.
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He will also have to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law upon his release, and was ordered to have no contact with the victims.
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