SEXUAL BATTERY IN VENICE

A VENICE MAN WAS ARRESTED EARLY SUNDAY MORNING AFTER ALLEGEDLY HAVING SEX WITH A MINOR AFTER GIVING HER BEER AND DRUGS.  VENICE POLICE SAY THEY WERE CALLED TO A HOME ON SUBSTATION ROAD LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AFTER THE FATHER OF THE 16 YEAR OLD VICTIM FOUND HER UNCONSCIOUS AND PARTIALLY CLOTHED IN A BED IN A NEARBY RESIDENCE.  ABOUT THREE HOURS LATER THE VICTIM AWOKE AND TOLD POLICE THAT SHE WAS GIVEN BEER AND XANAX BY 32 YEAR OLD MATTHEW CHMIELEWSKI.  DETECTIVES AND A CANINE WERE CALLED IN TO SEARCH FOR CHMIELEWSKI, WHO HAD REPORTEDLY FLED INTO THE WOODS NEARBY.  ABOUT AN HOUR AFTER THE SEARCH BEGAN, CHMIELEWSKI WAS FOUND HIDING UNDER CLOTHES AND BOXES ON THE FLOOR OF HIS VEHICLE.  DETECTIVES OBTAINED A SEARCH WARRANT FOR COLLECTING EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT A SEXUAL BATTERY HAD OCCURRED.  CHMIELEWSKI WAS CHARGED WITH SEXUAL BATTERY AND RESISTING ARREST WITHOUT VIOLENCE.  HE WAS TAKEN TO THE SARASOTA COUNTY JAIL.