Arraignment set for Bethel Park man charged with inappropriate behavior
A Bethel Park will be formally arraigned Oct. 5 in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on charges of inappropriate behavior with two juvenile females.
According to a criminal complaint, John Giovanni Tomassetti, 21, of 5052 Library Road is charged with two counts of corruption of minors and two counts of indecent assault stemming from an incident that took place on July 24.
Bethel Park police said the girls went to Eat’n Park on Library Road that day and were waited on by Tomassetti, who worked at the restaurant. The girls flirted with Tomassetti, who paid their bill, and told them to come back when he was working, according to the police report.
The girls returned to the restaurant and again waited on by Tomassetti, but the conversation became sexual in nature and he asked the girls to send him naked pictures through social media, police said. They refused and left the restaurant to walk home.
According to the complaint, Tomassetti ran up to them on Lytle Road, and he stood between the girls and grabbed their buttocks several times. The girls asked him to stop and walked a bit faster to get ahead of him, but Tomassetti grabbed the left arm of one of the girls and placed it on his crotch and asked them to follow him to an abandoned house at the corner of Lytle Road and Applegate Avenue, police said.
The girls walked faster to get away. according to the complaint, and Tomassetti followed for a while, but eventually stopped.
Tomassetti had a preliminary arraignment Aug. 3 and has been in the Allegheny County Jail since that time. On Aug. 18 during a hearing before District Judge Ronald Arnoni, Tomassetti’s bail was reduced from $25,000 to $10,000 cash.