Trapeze Instructor Charged With Sex Crime

Trapeze Instructor Charged With Sex Crime
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A north suburban trapeze instructor has been charged with committing a sex crime against a teenage girl.

Thirty-nine-year-old Julio Gaona operates the Flying Gaonas Gym in the 900-block of Green Bay Road in Winnetka.

He was arrested at the training camp, located at Hubbard Woods Park, last Friday afternoon. Police say he made "statements of a sexual nature soliciting inappropriate behavior" from a 16-year-old girl at the park. The incidents allegedly happened October 10 and 11.

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