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Yonkers worker convicted of trying to lure underage girl for sex

Published: January 18, 2013 3:38 PM
By RON BITTNER  ronald.bittner@cablevision.com

Hossam Elfeke, 32, of Yonkers, convicted of

Photo credit: Westchester DA's office | Hossam Elfeke, 32, of Yonkers, convicted of trying to arrange sex with a 15-year-old girl through email and text messages. The "girl" was an undercover investigator. (Jan. 18, 2013)

A Bronx man who worked as a manager at a Yonkers grocery store was convicted Friday of trying to set up a sex tryst with what he believed was a 15-year-old girl but was actually an undercover investigator, officials said.

In a trial that began Monday, Hossam Elfeke, 32, of 2255 Cruger Ave., was found guilty by a Westchester County Court jury of one count of first-degree attempted disseminating...

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