Man sentenced to 30 years to life for child molestation at Arcadia bookstore

ARCADIA — A San Gabriel convicted sex offender received a sentence of 30 years to life in prison Thursday for molesting a 5-year-old girl at a mall bookstore in Arcadia, officials said.
Jaime Elvis Elizondo, 35, was convicted of committing a lewd act on a child June 8 in Pasadena Superior Court, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Jane Robison said.
The conviction stemmed from a May, 2008 assault in the children’s section of a Borders bookstore at Westfield Santa Anita, 400 S. Baldwin Ave., officials said.
In the assault, which was captured on video, Elizondo pressed his exposed genitals against the young victim, police said.
Elizondo, who was already a registered sex offender, was tracked with the help of a witness who confronted him in the bookstore, then found his picture listed on the Megan’s Law Web site and turned the information over to police.

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