A registered sex offender who found a teenage girl's lost dog threatened to torture her pet unless he got sex from her, police said. Alfredo Jaime Dempkey, 27, of Hawthorne, was arrested on Friday night at the place where he had agreed to meet the 17 year old girl he planned to extort sex from.
The teenage girl said her dog, "Pineapple," a 2 year old cocker spaniel/toy poodle mix, wandered away from her family home around 7 p.m. Friday night. Her family reportedly looked for the dog, but had no luck. Police said they believe Dempkey found the dog and obtained the girl's phone number from its collar.
Dempkey called the girl, calling himself "Anthony" and told her he found the dog at the corner of Lennox and Hawthorne Blvd, and wanted $70 cash for its safe return. The teen recounted that Dempkey told her that if she didn't have money he wanted "something else"; he asked for sex.
Dempkey then threatened to torture the girl's dog if she didn't comply with his demands. According to the 17 year old, he said "If you don't want to do anything or if you don't want to give up money, I guess you don't want your dog." She said he told her he would "make (the dog) suffer."
The teenage girl says she hung up and started crying, though Dempkey immediately called her back. She agreed to meet him at the El Pollo Loco restaurant at Hawthorne Boulevard and Imperial Highway, she said. The girl said she then called her father and told him everything that had happened.
Police accompanied by the girl's father found Dempkey waiting outside the restaurant with the dog, unharmed, said Hawthorne police Lt. Mike Ishii. Police then arrested Dempkey and returned the dog to the victim's family.
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