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Suspect may have targeted 300 girls 07/19/2002 By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News CLEBURNE - More than 300 teenage girls could be victims or potential targets of a man accused of sexually assaulting underage victims after meeting them over the Internet, police said. Johnson County detectives said Thursday that they found names, Internet addresses and contact information for girls from Fort Worth, Rowlett, Ovilla, Coppell, Plano, Pleasant Grove and other cities at the Fort Worth home of Alfred Wayne Velasquez, 35. So far, Johnson County authorities, working with the U.S. Secret Service and district attorney's offices in...

Suspect in series of rapes arrested 05/25/2002 By MANOLO BARCO / The Dallas Morning News A slamming gate startled 19-year-old Courtney Brucker out of bed during the pre-dawn hours Friday. Little did she know that her quick thinking in waking up her mother and calling 911 and a neighbor would lead to the arrest of a man suspected of raping nine women in Tarrant and Johnson counties in the last six years. Police charged 30-year-old Manuel Salamanca Jr. of Cleburne with burglary. But a search of his truck, parked near the Arlington home, uncovered a knife and a pair...