Aldan man held for court in another luring case
He was on bail from first case; jailed now
PROSPECT PARK » An Aldan man already facing luring and related offenses in a Darby Township incident last year has been held for court for allegedly trying to coax two other 11-yearold girls into his car in January.
Tyler Boyle, 19, of the 600 block of West Magnolia Avenue, is facing two counts each of luring and corruption of minors, but Magisterial District Judge Jack Lippart dismissed two other counts of unlawful contact with a minor following a preliminary hearing Monday.
Prospect Park case
Lippart heard from both alleged victims, fifth-grade students at Prospect Elementary who said Boyle stopped his car near them on the 1100 block of Pennsylvania Avenue as they were walking home from school on the afternoon of Jan. 3.
Both girls identified Boyle in court as the driver of that sedan and said he spoke to them in hushed tones.
“I couldn’t really hear him that much,” one of the girls told Assistant District Attorney Bryan Barth. “He said something about 50 bucks and a blowout. I’m not exactly sure what that is.”
That girl told defense counsel Michael McDermott that the driver rolled down the window of the car but did not open the door and she did not hear whether he asked her to get in the car because he was talking in a whisper.
The other girl said she did not hear much of anything the driver was saying, but he did say something about money. She estimated they were more than 7 feet from the car, in distance demonstrated by Barth.
Both girls said the vehicle sped off when the driver saw a woman walking up behind them.
Prospect Park Patrolman and School Resource Officer Nick Denton said he interviewed the 11-year-olds the following day and they seemed to think the driver was offering $50. They provided a description of the vehicle and he had one of the girls show him where the interaction took place.
Denton said he then checked video surveillance from the school and found a silver four-door Nissan that was in the area at that time. A Ring doorbell on a nearby home also caught audio and video of the end of the interaction between the driver and girls, he said.
Denton said he was able to get a partial plate image off the Nissan and ran it through a plate reader that matched it to an Enterprise car rented to the Boyle family in Aldan.
During an interview with Police Chief David Madonna and Sgt. Harry O’Neill, Boyle allegedly acknowledged he was driving in the area at that time and had an interaction with two juvenile females, Denton said.
Denton said, referring to a transcript of that interview, that Boyle was only agitated with the girls when he made a lewd comment.
On cross examination, McDermott had Denton read the full transcript of that answer, as follows:
“When I pulled up, there were too many cars to park. I decided to stop by stop sign. Saw the girls walking across street. ‘Do you know that man,’ to each other. ‘You can’t park here.’ After they said that, I said, ‘I’ll park wherever I want, why don’t you …’ or whatever. They moved close, said ‘Huh?’ ‘I’ll park wherever I want, trying to do my job and get to Chester Pike.’ I pulled away because I know I’m not supposed to be talking to underage children.”
Darby Township case
Madonna indicated when Boyle was arrested Jan. 5 that officers had “a pretty good idea” he was their suspect after getting the rental car information due to his prior Darby Township arrest.
Boyle is facing charges of luring, corruption of minors, indecent exposure, open lewdness, unlawful contact with a minor, attempt and solicitation to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person less than 16 years old, and attempted indecent assault on a person less than 16 years old in that case.
Boyle allegedly approached a young girl on foot at the Southeast Delco Kindergarten Center, 1 School Lane, on March 26, and asked her if she wanted to get into his Jeep and be a producer for TikTok. When she told him no, he pulled his pants down and showed her his genitals, then grabbed them and told her to put her mouth on it, according to an affidavit of probable cause written by Darby Township Officer Kevin Urzi.
The girl left the area immediately, but the man followed her in his vehicle and again began talking to her before driving off down Rively Avenue toward Oak Lane, the affidavit reads. Urzi said he was able to get surveillance video footage of the Jeep from a resident on the 700 block of Rively Avenue.
Urzi additionally received surveillance footage from a Southeast Delco School District employee that showed the encounter between the man and the girl, including the man making movements consistent with pulling his pants down and the girl walking away. The video also showed the Jeep pulling up next to the girl as she walked along School Lane before driving away as the girl described, according to the affidavit.
Urzi obtained the Jeep’s registration information and traced it back to Boyle’s address and identification information, according to the affidavit. The girl confirmed Boyle was the man who had approached her after seeing his driver’s license photo, the affidavit says. Court records show Boyle was arrested that same day, but posted $20,000 bail on March 29.
Held for court
McDermott argued Monday that there was no evidence either of the 11-year-old girls in the Prospect Park case were actually in danger of kidnap or that his client ever showed them money.
Though some audio and video of the interaction purportedly exists, McDermott noted neither was shown in court.
Barth argued that taken in its totality, there was enough evidence that Boyle had offered the girls money to get in their car, even if he did not flash any actual cash at them, and that the interaction was only ended when he was interrupted by another person.
“He wasn’t going to ‘blowdry’ their hair, but even if that was the case, he’s still trying to lure them into the car for that,” said Barth. “He doesn’t have to show money, it’s like, you know, ‘I have candy in my van/do you want to see my puppy?’ Nothing has to be shown to make sure the transaction is going to be completed, it’s just a matter of getting the children close to the car.”
Boyle remains in custody at the county jail in Concord pending 10% of $225,000 bail.
He is scheduled for formal arraignment on the Prospect Park case April 5. Boyle is also scheduled for trial on the Darby Township case April 11 before Common Pleas Court Judge Mary Alice Brennan.