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Mom grabs molester

CRIME: From the L.A. Times comes a story of a mom getting proactive:
A mother's trip to a Reseda laundromat ended in her capturing a man suspected of sexually assaulting her son in an alley behind the coin-op, police said.

The suspect, Rafael Manguia Magana, 40, of Reseda, was arrested about 9 p.m. Sunday behind the laundromat in the 7600 block of Reseda Boulevard, said Kevin Maiberger of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Magana, who has no prior record, was booked on suspicion of lewd acts upon a child, and remained in custody Monday on $100,000 bail.

Report includes detail of a 13-year-old grabbed, an 11-year-old hiding, the boy's escape, then both telling the victim's mom and other boy's guardian, then the adults capturing the suspect.

Google satellite pic shows there's no alley behind that stripmall with the coin laundry in the 7600 block of Reseda Blvd.