Florida woman arrested for affair with 16yr old www.privateofficer.com

Florida woman arrested for affair with 16 year old www.privateofficer.com

PENSACOLA Fla. June 12 2008

Police arrested Angela Leavitt on Tuesday at an airport baggage claim – where she said she was about to surrender, anyway.

The 28-year-old Milton woman, accused of leaving town to continue a sexual affair with a 16-year-old boy, is being held at the Santa Rosa County Jail without bond.

She is charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor, a second-degree felony.Leavitt has been wanted since last week, when lawmen said she quit her job at the Whataburger in Pace and ran off with her teenaged co-worker and lover.

She also took her two children, 8-year-old Haley and 9-year-old Damien.On Tuesday, she told officers she was preparing to turn herself in at the jail.Leavitt’s husband, Greg Leavitt of Chuckwagon Lane, had been pleading publicly for her to come back to Florida for the children’s sake and face authorities. He told reporters last week that he gave her the children last Tuesday night not knowing that she’d take them and leave with the 16-year-old boy.

He did say he knew something about the boy.Investigators say a Crime Stoppers tip led them to Pensacola Regional Airport, where a connecting flight from Atlanta was said to be carrying Leavitt and the children.

The plane landed sometime before 1 p.m., after airport police were told to watch for Leavitt. When they spotted her at the baggage claim, her attorney was with her, said Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Sgt. Scott Haines.
Airport police made the initial arrest and took Leavitt to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office before her transfer to Santa Rosa.The children have been released to Greg Leavitt’s custody.The 16-year-old, who hasn’t been identified, came home Monday after calling investigators and taking a Greyhound bus from Texas to Pensacola.

He was returned to his parents in good health, lawmen said. Evidence in the case includes sex-related text messages between Leavitt and the teen. Based on the messages, they say Leavitt wanted to have the boy’s baby.Deputies said they found Leavitt and the boy together in her Dodge Durango twice in past months before the boy’s parents filed a restraining order. Their petition claimed the relationship had been sexual for months.

Investigators believe the pair had sex at least three times before the Sheriff’s Office issued Leavitt’s arrest warrant.She left town when she knew her arrest was imminent, Haines has said. She made her first appearance in court Wednesday.

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