Lakewood Police Chief Rob Lawson on Arrest of Suspect in Luring Cases

I'm Chief Rob Lawson of the Lakewood Police Department and the purpose of this press release is to inform the public about an arrest that was made this morning um regarding a luring of two juvenile females at approximately 8:00 this morning we received a call of an attempted luring of a juvenile on 14th Street specifically Pine Meir Avenue uh a 14y y old female was approached by a white male operating a black pickup truck the male beckoned to the female several times and attempt to lure her into the V vehicle the victim who was in fear for her safety ran home notified her parents and the vehicle took off in an unknown Direction a short time later uh we received a another call reference a similar incident involving a 15-year-old and this was on Kimberly Drive officer Richard stanik responded to the scene to take the information while officer Rob Meyer as well as several other Patrol officers um patroled the area to attempt to find the suspect vehicle officer Rob Meyer was successful in finding the vehicle on Hope Chapel Road near Country Club Drive uh initiated a motor vehicle stop of a 2000 black Nissan Frontier and ended up arresting the operator the operator is identified as a n Nicholas ravala and he resides in Jackson New Jersey and is 29 years old uh further in investigation was cont conducted by detective Steve Wexler who made a positive identification of the suspect and the suspect was transported to Lakewood Police headquarters for further questioning uh as a result of the continued investigation and with the participation of detective Lindsay Woodfield of the Ocean County prosecutor's office the uh suspect was charged with two counts of second degree luring and two counts of third degree child endangerment bail was set at the amount of $300,000 with no 10% I just want to um tell the public that it we we appreciate the cooperation that we received um from the public in this we have had several other luring attempts in the past several weeks and if we hadn't received these prompt phone calls um it's uncertain whether we would have been able to arrest the suspect so please keep Vigilant and protect your children and if any incidents like this occur please call us immediately thank you very much