Man on pre-trial release on child pornography charges arrested after fleeing to the Dominican Republic
BY JENNIFER CABRERA
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Wladimir Symonette, 36, was booked into the Alachua County Jail on Monday after fleeing to the Dominican Republic while on pre-trial release on child exploitation charges; he has also been charged with 10 new counts of possession of child pornography.
Symonette was originally arrested on March 17, 2022, after Gainesville Police Department officers, responding to a CyberTip that Symonette was soliciting child exploitation content from juveniles on the social networking site Tagged, served a search warrant at his address.
Symonette reportedly admitted to creating a fictitious persona utilizing the image of a female to communicate with subjects on Tagged, with some of those subjects being juveniles. Symonette also reportedly admitted to soliciting and receiving exploitation content from the juveniles. He was arrested on two counts of soliciting a child to commit illegal sexual acts.
Symonette posted $100,000 bond four days later, but officers learned from his employer that Symonette had fled to the Dominican Republic. Internet connection records provided in response to a subpoena showed that Symonette was logging in to his employer’s network from an IP address in the Dominican Republic beginning in early May. Symonette was fired on July 29.
That evidence also showed that Symonette was accessing the internet, a violation of his pre-trial release conditions.
Meanwhile, detectives were conducting a forensic analysis of Symonette’s devices and filed additional charges for possession of images depicting child pornography. A U.S. Marshal arrested him in the Dominican Republic and returned him to the Alachua County Jail earlier this week.
Symonette is being held without bond on the original charges and on $450,000 bond on the new charges.
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SICK S.O.B.
no love 4 pedos.. Bury him under the jail
Should have left him in the Dominican Republic and flagged him for reentry to the US, one less person taxpayers have to pay for. Employer should also have terminated his employment.
He fled the US to prevent prosecution, Griner fled to the US to prevent prosecution. Hmmmm.
Tf does Griner have to do with this guy?
My bad, Griner was prosecuted but cried to get back to the US. (By the way, wondering why we never saw photos of it kissing the ground when it got back.)
This guy fled the US to get to the Dominican Republic to avoid being prosecuted.
Two cases, two opposite actions to avoid punishment for their crimes.
This is hands down the dumbest, most idiotic rambling I’ve ever read.
And it was here in the Dominican Republic that he did mischief, he was with minors, a lady helped him hide here, said that her son was a doctor in the USA and had come from retirement. And she left debts for lots more than $6000 in debts
Y’all say some if the dumbest things smh!
Dominican Republic doesn’t have to carry our garbage. I would talk to the authorities there. They have really nice methods to “solve” situations like this case. He was there trying to explode Dominican kids with his crap. Glad he is back and locked up. I am American/Dominican by the way.
Just when I think the comments can’t get any dumber….. Great job…. Thank you
“it”? …. You’re an idiot
Self identification
– Meat head. Is there a particular reasoning for your pseudonym? Like, dislike or just give? That happens to be the easiest way to identify “them” since “they” are likely to be offended if you identify “them” by a specific gender.