Sexual Assault Suspect Tackled at Walmart

For a second time in recent weeks a random shopper is being credited with catching a suspected child molester moments after the crime.

The latest case happened at a San Leandro Walmart.

A little girl told her mother a man had touched her inappropriatedly last Friday night.  Then the little girl recognized the man and pointed him out to her mom who started yelling for people to help.

Fellow shoppers Malcolm Mason and Dino Rinetti heard the call and chased the man down and held him to the ground until police arrived.

Carlyle Villazon was arrested once police arrived.  He faces charges of engaging in lewd acts with a child, aggravated sexual assault on a child and false imprisonment, police said.

"The girl's mom was crying and the little girl was crying, and the  mom pointed this guy out," Mason told Bay City News. "I started walking toward him and he looked all reddish and nervous, then he started running."
 
A couple months ago, a similar sexual assault was reported inside a Dollar Tree store in Union City.
 
In that case a suspect pinned down a 2-year-old girl,  removed her diaper and pants and straddled her after she wandered into the  next aisle over from her family members, police said.
 
The suspect in that case, Eugene Melendres Ramos, 36, was arrested  on suspicion of committing a forcible lewd act on a child, assault with intent to commit a sex crime and attempted intercourse or sodomy with a child under the age of 10.
 
Ramos was also tackled by good Samaritans as he tried to run away.

Bay City News contributed to this report.

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