A 38-year-old man has been charged with committing sex crimes in Edison and New Brunswick.
Thomas Canales of Franklin Township was also charged with computer theft after he allegedly installed a surveillance system in a client’s home, and then reportedly watched activities in the home through his computer and cell phone, according to a statement released Sept. 16 by Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey, Chief Thomas Bryan of the Edison Police Department and Director Anthony A. Caputo of the New Brunswick Police Department.
Canales owns a computer company known as “Scope It Out” located in the Somerset section of Franklin.
Canales was apprehended at his home on Sept. 1 during an investigation by Detective Bill Coleman of the New Brunswick Police Department, Detective Dominick DeCarlo of the Edison Police Department and Detective Mark Morris of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
During the investigation, it was determined that Canales allegedly exposed himself to a seven-year-old girl New Brunswick on July 3. In that case, he is charged with sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child and lewdness.
He also was charged with criminal sexual contact for allegedly improperly touching a 32-year-old woman at a playground in an apartment complex in Edison on Aug. 25. The charge in that case was filed on Sept. 8, according to the statement.
Bail has been set at $300,000.
Anyone with information is asked to call Coleman at 732-745-5200, DeCarlo at 732-248-7400 or Morris at 732-745-3300.
