Man booked on charges of child sex abuse
A 53-year-old man suspected of sexually abusing two juvenile relatives was booked into Tuolumne County Jail early Friday morning after an arrest at New Melones Reservoir.
The Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office said the arrest stemmed from a report early Thursday morning about two juveniles who said they were being sexually abused by a relative.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to the suspect’s residence in Jamestown and determined he had left just prior to their arrival.
They searched the area and found the man’s truck near New Melones Reservoir without him in it, though he was found a “few hundred yards” away as the deputies searched the shoreline.
The Sheriff’s Office investigations division responded to take over the case and subsequently arrested Daniel Warren Lindsey, of the 10300 block of Preston Lane.
Lindsey was booked into the Dambacher Detention Center in Sonora at 4:10 a.m. Friday on suspicion of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 with force, continuous sexual abuse of a child and attempting to prevent/dissuade a victim/witness from reporting, all three of which are felonies.
Sheriff’s booking logs listed Lindsey’s occupation as “landscaping” and stated he was being held at the jail on $150,000 bail.
Vinelink, an online database of jail inmates, stated Lindsey remained in custody at the jail as of Monday afternoon.