Name: Dr. Anthony Lenny Velasquez
U.S. V. Velasquez
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Charges: Wrongful Sexual Contact With Patients
Military Branch: U.S. Navy
Listed In National Sex Offenders Registry? YES Ketucky
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Anthony Lenny Velasquez
Lieutenant Commander U. S. Navy
Convicted Sex Offender
Wrongful Sexual Contact With Patients
Anthony Lenny Velasquez was expelled from the U.S. Navy for two counts of wrongful sexual contact with patients and two counts of conduct unbecoming.
Velasquez pleaded guilty to two counts of wrongful sexual contact and two counts of conduct unbecoming an officer, in exchange for dropping 29 other counts of criminal allegations at a Yokosuka Naval Base court-martial. Under the terms of a pretrial plea agreement, Lt. Cmdr. Anthony L. Velasquez, 48, will not serve more than seven days of confinement at the Yokosuka Naval Base brig.
During the sentencing phase, four women described how Velasquez either improperly touched their genitals or made inappropriate sexual comments while he practiced general medicine at Japan's Naval Air Facility Atsugi in 2007 and 2008, as well as Kuwait's Camp Arifjan from December 2008 to June 2009.
Kitsap County, Washington prosecutors then charged him with failing to register as a sex offender, according to attorneys familiar with the case.
Anthony L. Velasquez, 48, was arrested at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor by Kitsap County Sheriff's Office detectives and booked into the Kitsap County jail on $25,000 bail. He posted bond and was released, said Scott Wilson, Kitsap County Sheriff's spokesman.
The sheriff's office investigated after being contacted by Naval Criminal Investigative Service about the possible violation, Wilson said.
State law requires people convicted of certain sex crimes to register as sex offenders within three days of arriving in a new state.
But Velasquez, who arrived in Kitsap County in early July, was convicted in a court martial at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan and it was unclear at first if his conviction required registration, lawyers involved in the case say.
The lieutenant commander pleaded guilty to two counts of wrongful sexual contact with patients and two counts of conduct unbecoming an officer in May, serving seven days in a Yokosuka brig, according to Stars and Stripes newspaper. He was sentenced to two years in prison, a $28,000 fine and forfeiture of all pay and allowances, but those punishments will be waived if he doesn't commit a crime in the next year, the publication said.
His medical credentials have been suspended and will be reviewed by civilian authorities, according to the Stars and Stripes story.
Russ Hauge, Kitsap County prosecutor, said his office reviewed whether Velasquez's conviction required him to register by comparing the military statute he pleaded guilty to with Washington's statute. The office found the likeliest match was felony indecent liberties -- a crime requiring registration.
Thomas Weaver, Velasquez's lawyer, said his client was headed to Kentucky to live, and that he was to register when he arrived there. Velasquez is in Kitsap while transitioning out of the Navy, according to Stars and Stripes.
Velasquez is a registered sex offender in Kentucky as of December 12, 2010.
