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Pioneer Chief of Police Tom Saccenti secures life conviction against Hernandez.
The Pioneer Police Department executed search warrants, conducted interviews, and worked with various law enforcement agencies, and the hard work paid off this week when they secured a life conviction against a man who was not only distributing child pornographic material across the internet, they also convicted the man of raping his young step daughter for several years.
Chief Tom Saccenti would not release all the names and details stating, "This is a small community, the victim has already been hurt enough, we don't need to re-victimize her" but he did state that the Pioneer Police Department responded to a residence within the city as a result of the mother of the girl stating that her daughter reported that her stepfather had been touching her inappropriately.
Chief Saccenti states, "We have policies on how to handle this type of situation, when the responding officer heard what the allegations were, he followed policy perfectly". Chief Saccenti had the home secured while a search warrant was written up. He then contacted BCI&I to assist his evidence technicians with processing the home, "We were not going to take any chances on this. Call it just a feeling, but I knew that there was going to be more to this case and I wanted to make sure we had everything covered".
Because Hernandez had moved out of the home several months prior, Chief Saccenti had his investigative team begin to locate the suspect. "We ended up serving 3 search warrants in 2 different counties, but we found him". While officers searched the new home of Hernandez, Chief Saccenti conducted a 4 hour interview with Hernandez. During the search Officers found a computer that was hidden. The computer was sent to a forensic analyst who discovered that Hernandez was using the computer to view and send child pornography. Hernandez initially denied the allegations, however, pled no contest to the charges and received a life sentence.
