Ryan Gregg accused of sexual assaulting minor!

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Martial arts star sought in sex crimes

By Larry Altman
STAFF WRITER

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One of the South Bay's top jujitsu athletes is being sought by federal and local authorities on charges of having sexual relations with at least two teen-age girls, allegations that have shocked the martial arts community.

Ryan Alan Gregg, 26, who has addresses in Lomita and Redondo Beach and has served jail time for battery, fled about two weeks ago when sheriff's deputies opened the latest investigation into allegations that he engaged in repeated sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl, investigators said.

Gregg is wanted on a $1 million arrest warrant filed in Torrance Superior Court charging him with three counts of engaging in sexual intercourse with a minor on July 18 in Rancho Palos Verdes. Besides Sheriff's Department investigators, FBI agents also are seeking him because other alleged acts occurred across state lines, a spokeswoman said.

Sheriff's Detective Doug Blaydes said he wants Gregg in custody as soon as possible.

“I consider him dangerous,” Blaydes said. “I consider him a threat to the community and a danger to any potential victims there are out there.”

Gregg's brother, Dustin Gregg, 25, turned himself in at the Manhattan Beach police station about 7 p.m. Wednesday in connection with the case. Manhattan Beach police obtained an arrest warrant earlier in the day charging Gregg with a misdemeanor count of intimidating or dissuading a witness, Manhattan Beach police Detective Michael Rosenberger said.

The witness actually is a victim authorities say charges that Ryan Gregg sexually assaulted her seven years ago, when he was 19 and she was 15. No charges were filed in that case.

The victim allegedly has been the target of repeated verbal harassment in an effort to stop her from testifying, authorities said.

Dustin Gregg was held on the warrant at the Manhattan Beach jail.

Ryan Gregg is well-known in the Brazilian jujitsu circuit, competing in tournaments, training athletes and organizing tournaments. The black-belt has accompanied athletes across state lines, including to Lake Havasu, Ariz., Laughlin and Las Vegas, Nev., prompting the FBI response.

“We are working the case,” FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley said. “It's a joint task force. He is being sought by the FBI's SAFE (Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement) team in conjunction with the Sheriff's Department.”

Gregg was sentenced in Torrance Superior Court in 1997 to spend 270 days behind bars on battery charges, court and police records show.

Some of Gregg's martial arts colleagues knew of his troubled past, but believed he had turned his life around. He was winning tournaments, teaching at the RJC Machado jujitsu academy in Torrance, and training athletes privately in his garage in Redondo Beach.

Glenn Chang, a manager at the Machado studio, said Gregg disappeared about two weeks ago after regular work and attendance there. Then he heard the allegations, a surprise because Gregg sometimes would ask not to work with women because of the close contact involved in the sport.

“I was really blown away,” Chang said. “At the school he was really, really nice. He always seemed very professional.”

Several jujitsu Internet sites mention Gregg for his wins in recent tournaments and for his help in organizing tournaments.

“For his division, he is one of the best in the South Bay,” Chang said. “He was very serious about it. To me, he poured his heart out into the sport and gave something good back. If this is true, he made one terrible big giant mistake.”

Anyone with information about Gregg's whereabouts is asked to call their local police station or the Sheriff's Department's Family Crimes Bureau at 562-946-8531.

Ryan Gregg is known to drive a 1997 Ford Explorer with the license 3UFP909.

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I don't know what to think about this....

I know Carlos is PISSED. Not only at Ryan for the embarrasment, but also at the guy who published this BS article, Rigan's office mgr., EVERYONE!!!
I never though Ryan would have done something like this, but the sad part is, is I was told about 3 weeks ago from a reliable source. Very tragic....

[Grahf1]

You were told THREE WEEKS AGO from a reliable source??? 3 weeks ago is way before he ran away according to this article.

[DIRE WOLF]

The **** needs to go down. He better know real good JJ because in jail you know he is going to need it.LOL

[capone]

Just because your good at BJJ doesnt mean you are a nice guy and will never do things like this. You never know with people these days. I thought my unclee was cool as ****, got me into bjj years ago but then we find out he molested my sister and many of my girl cousins! I hope he gets butt rammed in the pen if guilty.

[Joe Manco]

I think we should salute Ryan.

How many of us would love to have a youngin' again ... we didn't know how good we had it in high school, did we?

Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed ...

Hell, in many cultures, women are routinely married by 15. What makes it "wrong" in our culture? Are our women "different" ... or are our random "morals" different? If this young, curious hottie conscented to be ridin' the stallion, then what's the biggie?

Now, if it was FORCED rape, that is one thing ... but if Ryan got a young, willing Brittney Spears ... then ... YUM!

If it wasn't Ryan, it would have been someone ...

Why do you think I live next to a high school? ... He he ...

[War Pig]

Please no one respond to the bitch troll Joe Manco.

He gets his jollies by getting you hot and bothered.

Anyone who responds to his post is a dumbass stooge.

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You must sick minded my friend. So i guess it cool to bang minors and have the FBI go after your ass. Not only that but pissed off the Machado Brothers whom are embarresed by the situation. You make me sick.

[Dio]

The report says it was sexual assault. If they use the word "assault" then i would think that he raped her.

It says she was 15 and he was 19. He's 4 years older than her. That's not a huge age diffence. This is a crime commited a long time ago? How old is he now?

Joe Manco. If she was willing to have sex with him then why would the girl turn him in and why would he be pressuring her not to turn him in like the article says? If she really was willing then i wouldn't consider it a crime since their only 4 years apart. But it seems to me that he raped her. The report doesn't specify exactly what he did other than "sexually assault" her.

[Dio]

I think this guy is definatly guilty. Why esle would he run away?

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ana
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posted 08-02-2001 22:44
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Victim #2:
The easiest part of a situation like this is the part where you can sit back hear the gossip/rumors and make your own conclusion. Their is always two sides to the story.
The hardest part is putting your trust in someone and trusting that person with your biggest treasure then having that person who you trusted totally betray you in the worst possible way, this is what has happened here.
We trusted Ryan with our daughter, trusted him to be a leader, a coach, a person who would do the right thing as the adult in charge and in return, he manipulated and took advantage of a 14 year old girl who looked up to him, who saw her parents look up to him, he used the power of being a leader and a coach to brainwash and push a variety of drugs upon her - a 14 year old girl who didn't know any better, a girl who knew nothing of how a person who she trusted could manipulate her into drugs, sex, and even offer to video tape it. Yes we also thought the world of Ryan, just like many of you do and i'm sure this is an unbelievable thing to hear,.... well guess what, we thought it was unbelievable too, but unfortunatly we have been one more of his victims. He himself has shown us he is not who he says he is, with a rap sheet that is about a mile long, with time served for battery, with a previous sexual charge where the victim never completly came out because of harrasment and the fear of all the allegations and finger pointing that is going on now. If he is so "innocent" why is he still hiding and why is he spreading rumors to other childern about the situation?
How many of you have children who you trust with their coach (not to say that all coaches are bad) and thought like we thought "something like this could never happen to us". How many of you would be as calm and supportive to a predator who has used and taken advantage of your trust and hospitality? Ryan is so good at his game that he not ony manipulated our daughter but us as well, he has not for one minute ever changed his life around - he just found a better way to hide it.
Bottom line, our daughter at 14 was and has been a victim. At 14 what do you know about love and sex. She was with a person who she trusted, a person who she didn't think would ever hurt her, he in return has totally distorted what the meaning of love and sexual intamacy should really be about.
As a parent the hardest thing to hear your child tell you in detail about sex, about drugs, and how she was taught step by step by a person who is nothing but a sexual predator who needs to be stopped. This has been and continues to be as much of a shock to us as it is to many of you, but Ryan need to be stopped before other families get hit by something as tragic as this.
Giving an explanation to the forum is really unnecessary, but seeing my daughter falling apart over the situation, and not feeling a part of the ITG family who she always thought of as part of her family has put an even stronger emotional inbalance in her life. We could of easily just avoided the scandal and moved on with our lives to the best of our ability. As of now we see ourselves as the 2nd victim, we could easily be victim #3,4,5,6 etc., who knows. What we do know is that there are other victims who need to come forward and put a stop to Ryan Gregg.
To other victims don't be afraid to come forward you will be helping to put an end to other girls being victimized.

P.S. *** This post is from a parent who has been hit hard and is devastated. PLEASE SERVE JUSTICE AND DO NOT DELETE - THANKS

[Joe Manco]

Any set of parents who would entrust their 14 year old daughter in the hands of a 19 year old (or was he 26 when this happened?) is a fool (in either case).

I mean, really.

All trolling aside, the parents are complete FOOLS for doing this. There are brothers who take advantage of younger sisters, uncles who take advantage of their neices, cousins who take advantage of their younger cousins ... and (yes) even fathers who take advantage of their own daughters.

So WTF makes a set of parents think some hotshot martial arts coach wouldn't take advantage of their daughter? Why do you think the concept of a Chaparone exists? To prevent this kind of crap from happening.

Very, very foolish ...

Here's the reality pill for the parents: In the insurance industry we have a term called NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION, where parents are liable for the harm which befalls their own children. The courts created this term to handle situations where most reasonable parents woudn't allow their child to do "x". Like letting a 6 year old play by themselves in a zoo. If the kid gets bit by something, guess whose fault it is? Not the zoo's ... but the parents. They will likely be ruled as the culpable party by being negligent in failing to exercise the appropriate supervision.

I feel this is certainly applicable in this case. I mean, if I was "dad" I certainly wouldn't be allowing some young stallion to give MY 14 year old daughter "privates," would you?

"Yeah, kid, I'll bet you want to show her your privates ...", is what I'd be thinking ... and "HELL NO!" would be my answer.

The bottom line is I don't know to what degree Ryan pushed it, to what degree the kid wanted it (yes, folks, there are 14 year old sluts these days), nor can I even tell how old Ryan was when this happened (this remains ambiguous). I agree with Dio ... if it was a 15 year old and a 19 year old, then who cares? I mean is sex really that big of a deal? Grow up and out of the Dark Ages everyone! Sex is sex. Feels good, so people try to control it and make "rules" around it. Nothing new.

But if we want to cloak ourselves in the Dark Ages and whisper "taboo" at sex ... then I still say the parents are the most to blame for this "broken rule." Most 19 year old boys these days aren't exactly mature home-owners. They're not even "men", really, just punk kids.

But if it was a 26 year old and a 14 year old, then Ryan is adult enough to know better, put the parents should still take the Lion's Share of the blame for being idiots. Really, they were idiots either way.

Yeah, the parents wrote a compelling letter, and sure they are grieving over the broken Dark Age rules of sex and propriety ... but it appears CLUELESSNESS runs in their family, which is what ALLOWED the problem the potential to happen. Ever heard of the saying, "An ouce of prevention is better than a pound of cure."?

I mean, all on this forum say "AYE!" if they would allow their young daughter to be alone with a strange young man for "privates" in grappling together cloaked in robes ...

Anyone? Anyone?

Didn't think so.

I give the Julius Cesar thumbs down to the PARENTS as the true authors of this misfortune. Simple common sense would have gone a long way ...

[Dio]

Joe Manco. The parents say that he drugged her. You are a moron.

[Joe Manco]

All parents blame THEIR parental failings on "drugs," "the wrong crowd," etc., etc.

I'm sorry but THEY were the morons ... and so are you.

[Joe Manco]

Originally posted by War Pig
Please no one respond to the bitch troll Joe Manco.

He gets his jollies by getting you hot and bothered.

Anyone who responds to his post is a dumbass stooge.

I am curious, War Pig, did *your* responding to this post make YOU a dumbass stooge?

Please help me understand.

Yours truly,

Joe