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2 King City men booked for lewd acts with a child



On Thursday, November 29 at 3:25 pm Officers from the King City Police Department were dispatched to the 600 block of Meyer Street for a child abuse investigation. Upon the Officers arrival, the preliminary investigation revealed the victim, a 12 year old female, had been abused and Investigators from the Major Crimes Unit were called to investigate the incident. Investigators of the Major Crimes Unit discovered that the victim had been abused by 2 different suspects at 2 different times. The suspects were identified by the victim and contacted at a residence on the 400 block of Lambourne Court in King City and taken into custody without incident and booked into the Monterey County Jail. 30-year-old Raul Cortez Gonzalez of King City was booked on 2 counts of Lewd Acts with a child under 14 and 1 count of annoying and molesting a minor. These incidents occurred in 2016. 31-year-old Antonio Gonzalez Vasquez was booked on 1 count of Lewd Acts with a child under 14. This incident occurred in 2017. No other information is being released at this time, the investigation is continuing. Anyone with further information regarding this case is encouraged to contact Det. Leo Guzman at (831) 888-7168 or Det. Joshue Partida at (831) 718-7241 of the Major Crimes Investigations Unit.  The Major Crimes Investigations Unit is a collaboration of the Greenfield and King City Police Departments.

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