Josue Garriga III, 34, was indicted in April on a federal charge that he allegedly enticed a 17-year-old girl he knew from church into “unlawful sexual activity.”Former JSO officer Josue Garriga, 34, is facing five felony charges for sex crimes with a minor. His first court appearance was in Clay County.on a federal charge that he enticed a 17-year-old girl he knew from church into “unlawful sexual activity.
“Respectfully, the government is seeking to prove an entirely different case than the one charged,” defense attorney M. Alan Ceballos argued in a filing last week to U.S. District JudgeDefense attorney M. Alan Ceballos, shown addressing reporter in 2018, has asked a judge to reject a prosecutor's argument in an ex-JSO officer's case.
But Taylor told the judge that the evidence she planned to present — under court rules covering “other crimes, wrongs or acts” than a defendant is charged with — showed something important about Garriga’s frame of mind. “This evidence is especially probative in the circumstances of this case, where defendant successfully erased the bulk of the forensic evidence against him,” she added.