A former Florida deputy has admitted in court to intimidating undocumented male immigrants into performing gay sex acts with him or risk being deported.
34-year-old Jonathan Bleiweiss, who is a well-known figure in Fort Lauderdale’s gay community, pleaded guilty to 14 counts of armed false imprisonment, 15 counts of battery, and four counts of stalking.
Approximately 20 illegal male immigrants told investigators that Bleiweiss preyed on them, molesting them during pat downs and then asking for their phone numbers, which many of the victims claim they felt powerless to refuse.
The incidents happened between August 2008 and July 2009, when Bleiweiss was finally removed from the police force for his alleged behavior.
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He originally faced a total of more than 70 charges, many accusing him of sexual battery, which could have landed him several decades in prison, but prosecutors had to drop several of the charges. The problem, they say, is that many of Bleiweiss’ victims didn’t want to testify.
“I can understand that,” said prosecutor Neva Smith. “They are tired. They have been held hostage by this case for years. They have been tormented and teased in their community. They don’t want their faces on camera.”
Others, she added, “have since been deported.”
Yesterday, Broward Circuit Judge Michael Robinson sentenced Bleiweiss to five years in prison, plus ten years probation, as well ordered the ex-deputy to undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation. He will not, however, be required to register as a sex offender.
Many people feel the sentence is far too lenient.
“He’ll get out,” said attorney Alvin Entin. “He’ll be able to live the rest of his life. And he’ll do so without the stain of being a sexual predator.”
h/t: Sun Sentinal
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Ladbrook
That’s insane. He should be on the offenders list.
jwtraveler
“…do gay things with him”? He took advantage of powerless, vulnerable, frightened people and sexually abused and/or assaulted them. Nobody was “doing gay things”. One person was assaulting a bunch of others, who were victimized by him.
He got off easy (pardon the pun) because they were unable to fight back.
jason smeds
If he was better looking, I might have begged him to give me a pat down.
Ummmm Yeah
He’s a criminal, but so are they. Stop trying to make foreign invaders sound like they are victims of America’s cruelty. They own countries are harsher on invaders than America is.
PoshPanda
I am not making this up, but I am one of his victims. I was sexually assaulted and my life has been on a roller coaster. I moved up here legally, but things got messed up when I’m applying for my green card and I’m in a limbo. He pulled me over more than few occasions and it always ended up with him sexually assaulting me. This is not the first time I had this experience. I was assaulted with a few other officers and was always blamed for accepting the drinks that they bought me at the bar and agreed to have dinner with them. I was only 16 going on 17 years old when this happened. I told them no multiple times and they always pinned me down because I am a lot smaller in statute compare to them and told me that I couldn’t be serious that I did not expect to have any sex when I agreed to jump into the cab with them. I moved to the states from South a East Asia, wishing for a better life, I ran away from the persecutions by the Muslim countries, but here I am, being greeted by rapes. Yay for me. I have yet to be able to talk to a professional, cause I’m not technically legal here and I don’t have any health insurance and I think they would not take my words over the officers’s words.
Tackle
@PoshPanda: Yeah right!! I don’t believe a word you’re saying…
BJ McFrisky
I think Queerty needs to look up the definition of “rac!st” (this site is so PC, I have to intentionally misspell the word or I’ll be flagged). This man apparently is ATTRACTED TO Hispanics, not revolted by them, so the term is completely misused.
But, it’s par for the course. Liberals throw the “R” word around when there’s no other argument, thinking it’s the worst of insults, but they’ve abused the word so frequently that it no longer carries any weight.
NoCagada
@jason smeds: And then what, son…you’re going to tell him why he should be a republican?
Raphael
I think the sentence was too severe, if really all he did was touch and ask for numbers, as the article says. Obviously he must be punished, but five years in jail and 10 years probation is too much for “just” these acts.
moonman157
@Raphael: Read the article. 14 counts of armed false imprisonment, 15 counts of battery, and 4 counts of stalking, and that’s dramatically lower than the original counts brought against him. Your characterization of his actions as just touching people and asking for numbers is incredibly off base.
At the end of the day, this is a man who used his position of power in the community, one that is supposed to be used to build trust and make people feel safe, to intimidate, terrify, take advantage of, and abuse fellow human beings. And I’m appalled to read comments expressing ambivalence towards the horrific abuse of fellow human beings. Do you not understand that, throughout almost all of human history, homosexuals were threatened, beaten, raped, and killed, and people were indifferent to it because their conduct was illegal and seen as destructive to society? You sound like you would be arguing against the Stonewall Riots. “They’re all criminals. Stop trying to make sexual perverts sound like the victims of American cruelty.” The amount of hatred and bigotry I see on these boards is astounding and depressing. Where is your empathy for human beings? And how can you demand empathy from other humans who are not like you if you refuse that to others? These are men who went through unbelievable turmoil because of this officer. To justify it on the grounds of their citizenship is appalling.
Captain Obvious
@BJ McFrisky: Clearly you’re the one who doesn’t know the meaning of the term. American slave owners used to rape their slaves and even have MANY children by them. There are former(and some current) KKK members who have been with or after leaving are with black people.
Psych 101, “hate” comes from an extreme obsession with another person, or group of people. You don’t hate someone because you’re ignoring them and don’t want to be around them. You hate them because you envy them, want to be with them, or be like them.
Aside from that it’s also taught/learned behavior passed down through families so the water is muddied, but if you bother to muster up hatred for another person then it’s because you want something they have, or you quite literally want them as is the case in the article above.
Stormfront is run out of Florida, they have regular meetings. The KKK is all over Florida. Not sure where you got the idea that r.acism means not wanting to be around the group you “hate. But since you’re using the term “liberals” I think it’s safe to assume you’ve never been on the receiving end of it so you have no reason to actually learn where it comes from.
Ra.cism is nothing more than envy. The fact that they have to work so hard to pretend to hate brown people while obsessing over brown people and studying every little thing brown people supposedly “do” to the letter is proof enough in itself. You don’t pay attention to people you aren’t attracted to, that is well known, and biological.
When you want someone you can’t have either by pressure from society, your own mind, or your family it can also make you lash out. Just look at gay people who are also homophobes. It’s no different with r.acism.
Ladbrook
I (wrongly) assumed that this would be a no-brainer for the readers and regular posters here on Queerty. I’m baffled by his growing list of defenders / excuse-makers. The man is a sexual predator. It DOES NOT MATTER that he was “attracted” to them or that they were of a different ethnicity or that they were here illegally. HE’S A SEXUAL PREDATOR. He should be locked up for years AND he should have been added to the registry of sex offenders. Period.
onthemark
@BJ McFrisky: The word “rac*st” doesn’t even appear in the article – the headline says “RAPIST” – so why did you bring up this subject? Too hung over to see clearly? Stoned on a Sunday morning? Need reading glasses?
jwtraveler
@Ummmm Yeah: They’re not criminals. They’re poor, desperate people trying to make better lives for themselves and provide for their families. And they do not “own” countries. If they did, they wouldn’t come here. And most of these “alien invaders” have ancestries in America that go back millennia before any white man even knew there was a continent here, way before those white alien invaders decided that a continent inhabited by brown people was theirs for the taking.
But all that is irrelevant. Police are supposed to “protect and serve”, not abuse and terrorize. Even criminal suspects and convicts have rights to be treated humanely in this country. The cop violated his oath and violated those rights. He should be sent to prison for more than 5 years. What kind of sentence do you think these men would have gotten if they had sexually assaulted cops dozens of times?
Kangol
@BJ McFrisky: ???
The article doesn’t use the word “rac!st,” it’s headlined RAPIST cop.
(And yes, one can have not just racialized but rac!st fetishes, as David Duke reported does concerning interrac!al sex.)
man5996853
@Ummmm Yeah: Shouldn’t you be watching Faux News instead of trolling a gay site? Blame the victims, as you schmucks typically do. One person doesn’t deserve to be molested/sexually assaulted more than another, no matter who the hell they are.
DarkZephyr
@jwtraveler: I am 100% with you there. Molestation and rape are not “gay things”. God that pisses me off that they worded it that way.
enlightenone
@jwtraveler: You covered it all in your comments. Thanks!
Tackle
@BJ McFrisky: Oops somebody made a boo boo. Now they’ re hiding out.
Tackle
@onthemark: He can’t help it. But that’s what r@ cism does to one’s mind. Makes you delusional and blind.@DarkZephyr: And no taking @BJ McFrisky: to task for throwing r@ce into the mix like you would if a Black guy bought it up??
Texan78730
Latinos are uncut. That alone would be enough to turn me off!
DarkZephyr
@Tackle: For the most part I don’t know who is what on here, nor do I care. There are some that say “I am such and such” or will put it in their user names but otherwise, I have no idea and I don’t really give a shit. I don’t do it “because a black guy brought it up” when I do say something, I do it because I perceive their posts as examples of race baiting which I despise and believe me white guys are certainly capable of race baiting people of color AND other white guys. And BJ McFrisky’s reason for mentioning rac*sm is because he misread “rapist” as “rac*st” and not because he thought there were too many pictures of white guys, and plenty of other guys called him out for that error. If you think that I didn’t say something because BJ is white (and I don’t know WHAT he is, Tackle) and I must side with white guys in all things then you have not been paying attention to *most* of the exchanges that I HAVE had with BJ and you also must have missed all the times I have called out people on here that I thought made rac*st remarks to or about people of color. have you not seen half of my past exchanges with Masc4masc and others who want to justify nasty profiles like “no blacks, no fatties, no fems”? But recally, I don’t have to answer to you nor do I have to prove anything to you or justify myself to you. I replied out of courtesy. Have a good night Tackle.
@Texan78730: “Latinos are cut” as if being cut is a racial characteristic? Latinos can be whatever they damn well please. You know what I find a turn off? Guys who make racial remarks like you did. So gross.
DarkZephyr
@DarkZephyr: and that would be “but really”.
jwtraveler
@Texan78730: Wow! If that isn’t the stupidest comment I’ve seen here in a long time…
petensfo
So, this guy doesn’t need to register as a sex offender? What exactly do they think a sex offender is then? And, who’s on the list now? Any gay guys caught in a park, a bathroom, or on a secluded beach? In Naples, the cops were very busy busting up gay meeting places near the pier. Were any of those guys placed on an offender list?
This all reeks of special treatment.
Ummmm Yeah
@jwtraveler: You must be a criminal too, otherwise you would understand that by breaking a law that makes you one. And like I said these invader’s won countries beat the shit out of illegal immigrants, steal everything they have on them and toss them out. So all of you border hoppers need to quit whining about how bad America treats you.
Ummmm Yeah
@man5996853: They became victims because they chose to be criminals. Keeping out all these criminals is one thing Fox News and the republicans get right. This trash makes it harder for honest people from their countries to come to America. To hell with them.
I am Gay (just like you), Black, HIV-Positive, and Back Bitches!!!
@DarkZephyr: A cop has every right to admit that he’s a rascist Dark Zephyr! You should try being so honest!
Harley
@Ummmm Yeah: YEA! You said it. All those immigrants coming into this country taking up all those minimum wage jobs that all our young people refuse to take cause “mommy and daddy” gives them all they want, out there ruining our lawns and hedges with their vicious garden tools being paid half what a legitimate lawn service would charge you. And don’t forget all those innocent business owners that are tricked into hiring illegals because they work for half what citizens would want. American business owners are victims in this regard.
I am Gay (just like you), Black, HIV-Positive, and Back Bitches!!!
@PoshPanda: Legal drinking age is 21 you naive bitch! So, how did you claim that you weren’t doing something illegal in the first place?
They pulled you over? How’d you get a car? Oh, yeah! You were doing some illegal shit alright! You ain’t foolin’ nobody! What was the deal? Whatever it was they got you off clean scott free! So it sounds like you ran into the GOOD cops! They expunged your record good didn’t they? How bout you return the favor? But now you want to have a gripe? Nah, they didn’t treat you like you was a minority just yet! You better suck that strong American dick son!
So, either way you slice it yours is more a case of slut-shaming! Because if you’re story is true then you have to admit that you give it up way too easy!
You admit to taking the free drinks! You admit to taking the free dinners, the free cab rides, the free fucking gay sex with actual badge carrying police officers, and you got the nerve to call it harassment? And because you’re underrage?
Goddamn! Bitch, you ought to be shot for real! You just want everythang for free dontcha bitch?!
I don’t know what the fuck wrong with you, but I don’t play that shit! You stealing my dicks with your young ass, so I suggest you enjoy that good dick, and stop complaining on my watch! Peace!
The Wizard has spoken!!!
Giancarlo85
@Texan78730: AWESOME. I am very happy to not of being ANY interest to someone like you.
As far as this article, plain sick. If this guy did this to any of my relatives, I would take justice into my own hands.
By the way, I am Colombian and yes I am gay. But when people make nasty comments like Texan and Ummm Yeah (yeah he’s a xenophobe) I don’t care for them.
Large Marge
@I am Gay (just like you), Black, HIV-Positive, and Back Bitches!!!:
Even if he did something wrong/illegal, that is no reason to rape him… because rape is bad, mmmmkay?
The officer(s) should all be on the sex offender list because they had sex with a minor… statutory rape. I don’t know what legal/religious gymnastics the judge went through, but statutory rape is rape… so much rapey that rape is even in the name of statutory rape.
By the way, buying things for someone is okay. Forcibly requiring sex after buying them something is not okay.
PS: Good cops would have enforced the law by arresting him. Bad cops are the ones who say ‘oh, i’ll overlook this infraction if you give me a hummer!”
Do you see the difference Einstein?
Giancarlo85
@Ummmm Yeah: Oh really? Then why don’t you give the US back to its rightful owners? The Various Native American tribes you kicked onto subpar reservations? The US Army committed atrocities against Natives… don’t have anything to say about that now do you? Keeping “criminals” out? Wake up race baiter, republicans want more immigrants because republicans are tied to mega-corporations. Those mega-corporations want immigrants because they are literally the hardest workers in the world. Fox News is to appease those who don’t think on their own.
Giancarlo85
@I am Gay (just like you), Black, HIV-Positive, and Back Bitches!!!: Um, I don’t know if that poshpanda guy is telling the truth. Maybe not. Maybe yes. But your rant is absolutely ridiculous. Even if he was doing something illegal, underage sex is still a crime in this country. And sexual assault is also a crime.
Kieran
Jonathan obviously got a sweetheart deal. He must have connections in Fort Ladeedaa. If this had been a white cop in NYC who sexually assaulted 20 black males he’d be sent away for life.
Evji108
This toad couldn’t get laid without forcing people under his control to have sex with him. Now he can enjoy the reverse position in prison.
jwtraveler
@Ummmm Yeah: So you’re saying it’s OK for representatives of the U.S. government to abuse and violate the rights of foreigners in the U.S. as long as their governments treat foreigners more abusively. Do I have that right?
jwtraveler
I live in NYC in a predominantly Mexican/Latin American community. They include citizens, legal and illegal immigrants. My impression is that they are easy-going, law-abiding people who work hard and are devoted to their families. The neighborhood is quiet, safe and friendly.
Yesterday I was out in frigid weather and ran into a young Latino restaurant deliveryman trying to find an address. I tried to help him, but later realized I’d made a mistake. I felt so bad that I went after him to correct my mistake. I found him still wandering around looking for the address and I gave him correct directions. I fail to see how this young immigrant, delivering food to Americans reluctant to go out on one of the coldest days of the year, is doing any harm to this country. And I don’t see a lot of Americans who are anxious to take his job.
Xzamilio
@BJ McFrisky: Shocking… backwards minded and apparently dyslexic. At least liberals double check headlines before going on tirades about words that don’t even appear in the story.
enlightenone
@Xzamilio: “Shocking… backwards minded and apparently dyslexic….”
I think it have more to do with the Aaron Schock/Lindsay Graham/Alcoholic Boner Filter that can be purchased at the Noah’s Ark Amusement Park in Kentucky.
Matt1961
Why this cop didn’t rate the sexual offenders list is beyond me. Frat boys get on the list for peeing in public. This guy was a predator and preyed on illegals under the color of law. He got a slap on the wrist, this is disgraceful.
As for the rest of you debating the verbs, nouns and punctuation, get over yourselves. Seriously…
Giancarlo85
@BJ McFrisky: Reading comprehension failure. Liberal this liberal that… that’s all you can throw around. Did you actually READ the headline? It’s funny you disappeared after people exposed you for that.
robho3
Of course it happened in Florida.
crepuscule
@jwtraveler: I’m glad you’re a voice of reason around here. It’s shocking how some people are completely devoid of any ounce of human empathy towards others’ struggles to survive.
Zenguy
Fate delt this creep what he deserves, because he looks thirty years older than his actual age.
jwtraveler
@crepuscule: Thank you. I try. It’s tough being a rational person in an irrational world.