Leominster Police: Men tried to lure girls into yard

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LEOMINSTER -- Police allege two Pearl Street men attempted to lure a group of girls into their backyard Wednesday evening as the girls walked out of the Leominster Public Library, according to court documents.

A 14-year-old girl went to the police station to report the incident, telling Officer John C. Monahan she and three of her friends were at the library doing schoolwork then left from the Pearl Street entrance, according to Monahan's report.

The girl said she and her friends noticed a cat crawling into the wheel well of a vehicle and said they tried to free it from the car, Monahan wrote.

"It was at this time that they observed an older male sitting on the porch of a house that was directly across the street from the library," Monahan wrote. "The male ... began to call out to the girls. The male began to motion to the girls, with his hand, waving for the girls to come onto his property."

The man, later identified as James Pellechia Jr., 72, of 44 Pearl St., allegedly told the girls there were more cats in a van at the rear of the property and invited them to walk down the driveway to see them, according to Monahan's report.

At that point, a second man, later identified as Michael Cross, 33, of 44 Pearl St., also appeared and allegedly blocked their path to leave, Monahan wrote.

"(Cross) then began to tell the girls to keep going towards the back, that the cats were in a van in the back of the house," Monahan wrote. "The girls began
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to get very scared and were in fear ... the first older male then opened the door to the van, telling the girls to get in because the cats were in the van."

The girls reportedly ran past Cross and back to the library, Monahan wrote.

Monahan went to the house to speak with Pellechia, who "became very nervous and very reluctant" to speak, then later "asked if (Monahan) was there about the girls," according to the report.

Pellechia allegedly said he never asked the girls to go down the driveway, but Monahan wrote, "I had never made mention of the girls going down the driveway to James."

Both Cross and Pellechia allegedly made inconsistent statements about what had happened on the property, and both acknowledged they spoke to a group of girls there, Monahan wrote.

Also in the court documents, Officer Eric M. Craig included a supplemental report about an alleged incident on Saturday, during which a 17-year-old female neighbor told Craig that Pellechia had asked her to come inside his house to "watch porn," Craig wrote.

The 17-year-old did not make a criminal complaint but "stated that Mr. Pellechia's request made her uncomfortable."

Both Cross and Pellechia appeared in Leominster District Court Thursday to be arraigned on one count each of enticing a child under 16. Judge John J. Curran Jr. released Cross on personal recognizance and set bail for Pellechia at $2,500, which he paid, according to court documents.

They are both due in court Dec. 7 for pretrial hearings.

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Also in the court documents, Officer Eric M. Craig included a supplemental report about an alleged incident on Saturday, during which a 17-year-old female neighbor told Craig that Pellechia had asked her to come inside his house to "watch porn," Craig wrote.

My nephew. Haven't talked to him in a while, perhaps I should give him a call...

[MassMark]

Seriously - we landed men on the moon. Can't we make a tactical nuke that would just take out a back yard? I'm so weary of these sick f**ks... I know it happens everywhere, but it seems so rampant in Massachusetts...

[EddieCoyle]

Of course cats were involved.

[Chrisg67]

Sucks seeing this kind of stuff in your own town

and my wife wonders why i want her to get her LTC

Of course cats were involved.

[Doc Holiday]

Ah, the Twin Cities, Fitchburg and Leominster, nothing like hearing about a perv who needs a serious a$$ stomping, to get the blood nice and warm first thing in the morning.

[Doc Holiday]

Judge John J. Curran Jr. released Cross on personal recognizance and set bail for Pellechia at $2,500, which he paid, according to court documents.


How is it, that they, both of them, obviously are preditors, are out on bail? Why, oh why, did this sackless judge, allow these two to be out?

Here in lies the problem, sackless judge, using bad judgment, and not tacking their butt to the inside of Worcester House of Correction for use as a pinata by all of the other misunderstood and others trying to turn their life around, until at least the pre trial.

If these guys never make it to court, I certainly would not ask why, or bother looking for them.

[upStomp]

Sucks seeing this kind of stuff in your own town

any my wife wonders why i want her to get her LTC

Same here. I can't even get her to go to the range with me.

This happened only about 2 miles from my house. Thank God shit doesn't roll uphill.

[Jose]

How hard would it be for one of these two mopes to be rolled into a van, beaten to within an inch of his life, and dumped out in the country at night?

[ipscdrl]

How hard would it be for one of these two mopes to be rolled into a van, beaten to within an inch of his life, and dumped out in the country at night?

Why don't you let us know....................