TAMPA — The U.S. Attorney’s Office recently presented its Officer of the Year award for Florida’s Middle District to Detective Don Woelke of the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office for his work in finding and catching a sex predator who lured a 13-year-old girl from Texas to Florida for sex.
In 2021, the suspect, Vincent Joseph Robusto, then 38, coached the girl to lead her parents to believe she was attending a church retreat, purchasing her a one-way airline ticket to meet him in Fort Myers, court records show.
When she arrived, he traveled with her all around Southwest Florida, evading law enforcement. He was eventually found and arrested in Charlotte County…