Molest suspect back in custody

A suspected local child molester has been arrested after allegedly committing lewd acts on a 13-year-old child before fleeing the city to elude police custody. On June 25, Hanford Police officers received a report of a child being molested in the 100 block of West Elm Street. The owner of the property, 32-year-old Jacob Entelisano, fled the scene before officers could contact him.

It is alleged that the suspect molested the unnamed victim over the last two years.

Entelisano was reportedly hiding in Redding when officers caught up with him on Friday, transporting him back to Hanford to be booked into the Kings County Jail.

He is being held on suspicion of lewd and lascivious acts upon a child under 14 years of age, engaging in three or more acts of substantial sexual conduct with a child under 14 years of age and sexual penetration of another person under 14 years of age and who is more than 10 years younger than the suspect.

The suspect is being held in lieu of $300,000 bail.

The reporter can be reached at 583-2425.

(July 3, 2008)