May 16, 2015 Last updated: Saturday, May 16, 2015, 1:21 AM
By ABBOTT KOLOFF


GARFIELD — A 26-year-old Paterson man has been arrested on charges related to alleged "inappropriate sexual activity" with a 13-year-old girl, authorities said Friday.

Pedro Liranzogomez, a scrap metal worker, was arrested Thursday at a Port Authority facility after the girl's mother reported the allegations to authorities, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said in a news release.

The arrest was made by detectives from the Prosecutor's Office and police from Garfield and the Port Authority, Molinelli said. He did not provide information about why the arrest took place at a Port Authority facility. A spokesman for the agency said on Friday that he did not have information about the arrest.

Molinelli said the girl, an "acquaintance" of the defendant's, had told her mother about the alleged sexual activity.

The accused was charged with one count each of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, Molinelli said. He was being held Friday in the Bergen County Jail on $150,000 bail, according to jail records. The records also show a detainer has been placed on Liranzogomez out of Union Township.

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