Senior Corporal Geoff Pettay of the Dallas Police Department has protected the Lake Highlands community for years as a police officer for the Northeast Patrol. He knows the faces of the community, and saw just how terrifying it is for women in the neighborhood when a suspected serial rapist is on the loose.
Just six days before the arrest of suspected Lake Highlands rapist Cesar Benitez, Pettay said he remembered the description of a man suspected of peeping in a women’s bathroom last April that Plano police were seeking to arrest. The suspected peeper was arrested one month later for another incidence of peeping in Allen and identified as Cesar Benitez. Allen police charged Benitez with disorderly conduct and set his bond at $1,500.