BOCA RATON, FL — He was supposed to stay away from minors. A Broward County judge had ordered it.
A North Lauderdale man who was on pretrial release in a 2023 Broward case originally charged as lewd or lascivious molestation and use of a computer to exploit a child is now charged with sexually battering a 17-year-old inside a Boca Raton Holiday Inn last summer, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by the Boca Raton Police Department and Broward County court records.
Malik Juante Mackey, 26, was booked into the Palm Beach County Main Detention Center on Monday at 9:49 p.m., according to Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office records. He faces five felony charges in the Palm Beach County case: sexual battery on a victim 12 to 17, unlawful sexual activity with certain minors, soliciting a child for unlawful sexual conduct using a computer, harmful communication to a minor, and use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony.
The Boca Raton case dates back to July 7, 2025, when officers responded to a Holiday Inn for a disturbance call, according to the affidavit. The teen, who had been reported missing from a Davie group home, told an officer she had been sexually battered inside one of the hotel rooms two days earlier, the affidavit states. Police wrote that the alleged incident occurred on July 5, 2025.
According to the affidavit, the teen told investigators she had communicated with Mackey by text message and on Instagram in the days before the alleged incident, and that Mackey arranged ride-share transportation to bring her to the hotel. Police wrote that Mackey was messaging her under the Instagram username "yn.drac0." The affidavit alleges Mackey continued sexual contact despite the teen telling him to stop.
Detective Dale Graham wrote in the affidavit that pretrial supervision data and hotel records placed Mackey at the Holiday Inn on the dates in question. The affidavit states Mackey was wearing a GPS ankle monitor and was subject to a court-ordered condition barring him from being around minors at the time.
The Broward case
That pretrial release stemmed from a felony case in Broward Circuit Court, State of Florida v. Mackey, Case No. 23008189CF10A.
Mackey was originally arrested by the Broward Sheriff's Office on July 30, 2023 on charges that included lewd or lascivious molestation, use of a computer for child exploitation, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, the Broward docket shows. He posted surety bonds totaling $75,000 on August 9, 2023 and was released.
The State Attorney's Office filed an Information charging Mackey with two counts of obscenity, one count of attempted aggravated battery, and one count of use of a two-way device to facilitate a felony, court records show. A no-information filing later resolved the two-way device count.
On July 3, 2025 — two days before the alleged Boca Raton incident — Mackey filed a motion to modify the conditions of his pretrial release, according to the Broward docket. The docket does not specify which condition the motion sought to change.
He was arrested eight days later, on July 11, 2025, by the Broward Sheriff's Office in Deerfield Beach on a violation of pretrial release, Boca Raton police and Broward court records show. The Boca Raton affidavit states he was found in a vehicle behind an auto parts store with another 17-year-old. No sexual battery allegations were made in that incident, the affidavit states. Mackey invoked his right to counsel when Boca Raton detectives attempted to interview him at a Broward Sheriff's Office substation.
A Palm Beach County judge signed a warrant in the Boca Raton case on July 17, 2025. Mackey remained in Broward custody.
On May 26, 2026 — nearly a year later — Mackey pleaded nolo contendere in the Broward case to two counts of obscenity and one count of attempted aggravated battery, the docket shows. Broward Circuit Judge George J. Odom Jr. adjudicated him guilty and sentenced him to one year and one day in Florida state prison with 328 days credit for time served, followed by three years of state probation on the first count and concurrent five-year probation terms on the other two counts.
The sentence includes a special condition of "no contact with minor children without adult supervision," according to the sentencing order. His state probation was scheduled to begin July 4, 2026.
Back in Palm Beach County
Mackey was booked into the Palm Beach County Main Detention Center on June 29, 2026, jail records show. At his first appearance on June 30, 2026, prosecutors moved for pretrial detention. The motion was denied, the docket shows.
The court set total bond at $270,000, including $175,000 on the sexual battery count, $50,000 on the unlawful sexual activity count, $25,000 on the solicitation count, and $10,000 each on the harmful communication and two-way communication device counts.
The court also imposed bond conditions including no contact with the victim or witnesses, no weapons, and a restriction that Mackey may have a phone for incoming and outgoing calls only, with no smart phones permitted. Mackey was found indigent and assigned a public defender.
Mackey is scheduled for a 30-day return on July 29, 2026, and an initial case conference before Circuit Judge Sarah Willis on August 20, 2026.
The charges are allegations. Mackey has not entered a plea in the Palm Beach County case and is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.
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