On Friday May 30th, 2025, at approximately 01:00AM, Titusville Police Department responded to a reported sexual battery incident near the 3500 block of South Street Highway. Patrol officers met with the reporting party to gather the necessary information. While searching for the suspect, it was learned that the suspect attempted to evade law enforcement by obtaining a ride sharing service. Patrol officers were able to locate the ride sharing service and take the suspect into custody, positively identifying the suspect as Yamani Serrano DOB 12-31-2004 of Titusville Florida.
Detectives responded and assumed the investigation, which revealed Serrano contacted the juvenile victim through social media, offering the juvenile victim nicotine products. This offer was to lure the juvenile victim to Serrano. Once the juvenile victim met with Serrano in person, the juvenile victim was lured into some nearby woods in the 3500 Block of South Street. Once in the woods, Serrano took possession of the juvenile victim’s phone and instructed this victim to perform sexual acts on Serrano to have the phone returned. Serrano then destroyed the phone after the sex act. The juvenile victim then ran away to the roadway and flagged down a passing motorist, who contacted law enforcement. Serrano attempted to flee the scene by ordering a ride sharing service. The ride sharing service Serrano contacted was the passing motorist the juvenile victim sought out assistance from.
