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TARU Technician Ruben Morales is a fictional character portrayed by Joel de la Fuente in the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Surveillance (season 3), they were 32 years old.
They appear in 52 episodes out of a total of 551 aired so far

TARU Technician Ruben Morales

by Joel de la Fuente

character

Episodes52

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    Surveillance
    episode S3.E17 march 2002
    Cellist Cassie Germaine is attacked in her apartment. Benson & Stabler's investigation leads to discovery of hidden cameras streaming Cassie's home activities to a web site with only one discovered visitor, and a shrine.
  • 8.3
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    Guilt
    episode S3.E18 march 2002
    When one difficulty after another hinder the prosecution of serial pedophile, Roy Barnett, desperate A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot oversteps the bounds of the law, risking both her job, and that of Benson and Stabler, to put this dangerous man behind bars.
  • 8.2
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    Dolls
    episode S4.E7 november 2002
    Detectives Benson and Stabler begin hunting for a serial pedophile after a 5-year-old girl's decomposed body is found in the trash.
  • 8.3
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    Pandora
    episode S4.E15 february 2003
    The brutal rape and subsequent death of a female motorist turns out to be an informant for the FBI acting as a cyber vigilante for catching on-line pedophiles to capture the predators. Stabler, along with the homicide detective who found the victim's husband murdered, follow the trail of evidence for the latest victim she had been tracking, leading them to the US Attorney's Office and a trip to Prague for Stabler to assist the Czech authorities when they find the kidnapped girl.
  • 8.2
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    Privilege
    episode S4.E17 february 2003
    Detectives Benson and Stabler are called to a crime scene--a young woman dressed in a maid's uniform has apparently committed suicide. But there's lots of sexually-related bruising so they question whether she was pushed and if she was raped.
  • 8.1
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    Appearances
    episode S4.E19 march 2003
    A nine-year-old child's asphyxiated body is found in a suitcase on a bus, with evidence of having been in the Everglades. The coroner found she had had a quality nose job, and been raped. Benson and Stabler find she was a regular beauty pageant contestant. A suspect's computer is found with a juvenile kidnap, rape, and murder how-to, apparently perfectly legal, because it was created using legal-age models whose images were manipulated by software to make them look much younger.
  • 8.4
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    Futility
    episode S4.E22 april 2003
    After arresting a man accused of raping several neighborhood women, Detectives Benson and Stabler attempt to obtain an indictment for their suspect with the help of a key eyewitness--his last victim. However, the suspect's decision to handle his own defense casts some doubt over the trial's outcome as he proves to be a formidable opponent for ADA Cabot.
  • 8
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    Tragedy
    episode S5.E1 september 2003
    When a pregnant woman is kidnapped and carjacked, the squad thinks, at first, that she's the latest victim of a serial rapist, only to realize that she's the victim of an intricate ransom plot.
  • 8.6
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    Families
    episode S5.E15 february 2004
    A high school student is found murdered, and it appears she's the victim of incest.
  • 8.2
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    Painless
    episode S5.E22 april 2004
    A woman claiming to have been raped and left for dead commits suicide while waiting to be treated in the emergency room.
  • 8
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    Head
    episode S5.E25 may 2004
    A urophile, cyber-Peeping Tom catches a child abuse case on video.
  • 8.2
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    Haunted
    episode S6.E10 december 2004
    After nearly losing his life to save a young boy from a pair of gangbangers, Fin is declared a hero... until a woman surfaces from his days in Narcotics.
  • 8.4
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    Quarry
    episode S6.E13 january 2005
    An old body of a young kid is found and there seems to be a link to a soon-to-be-executed pedophile. Can the squad find the link between him and the body, or is there a more sinister link?
  • 7.5
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    Game
    episode S6.E14 february 2005
    A prostitute is violently murdered and outside of a weird phone call there seems to be little to no motive. Then Stabler's son notices some similarities to a GTA style video game.
  • 7.9
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    Hooked
    episode S6.E15 february 2005
    A teenage girl who moonlighted as a hooker is killed and found to be HIV positive.
  • 8.4
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    Pure
    episode S6.E18 march 2005
    The team races against time to locate a kidnapped 18-year-old girl. The case is complicated when the detectives receive a dubious offer of help from a man who claims to have had psychic visions of the missing teenager.
  • 8.3
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    Intoxicated
    episode S6.E19 march 2005
    When a mom finds her 15-year-old daughter in bed with a 21-year-old man, she goes to the SVU to report rape.
  • 7.5
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    Blood
    episode S6.E21 may 2005
    After a young woman's baby is tossed out of a car, Benson and Stabler investigate to find out what happened, and after learning the young woman is addicted to prescription painkillers, their investigation leads them to an elderly woman named Jenny Rogers, who lives with her son Kevin and daughter-in-law Carol. The young woman finally identifies Carol Rogers as the person who sold her the drugs, but when detectives go to confront Carol, they find her body and are left trying to uncover who really killed Carol.
  • 8
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    Goliath
    episode S6.E23 may 2005
    After the wife of a police officer claims her husband raped her, Benson and Stabler arrest the man and come close to believing his version of events when he attacks his captain. When another officer murders his wife and attempts to kill himself that same night, the whole force gets involved and soon realizes that the two men both recently returned home from Afghanistan, where they were given the drug Quinium, an anti-malarial. With the reluctant help of reporter Sherm Hempell and a base doctor with an attack of conscience, Novak takes on the U.S. army. Stabler has trouble with the case because of his history in the Marines.
  • 9.3
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    911
    episode S7.E3 october 2005
    A little girl calls for help, claiming she's being held hostage, but the team has to keep her on the line to track her down.
  • 8.2
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    Storm
    episode S7.E10 november 2005
    Detectives pursue a child molester who kidnapped 3 orphans from Hurricane Katrina, and discover a more dangerous threat.
  • 8.1
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    Blast
    episode S7.E13 january 2006
    The abduction of a little girl turns even more desperate when it's found she's suffering from an undiagnosed leukemia.
  • 8.3
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    Manipulated
    episode S7.E15 february 2006
    A successful lawyer's secret life as an exotic dancer is revealed to her boss and her fiancé after she and a stripper friend are found murdered.
  • 8.4
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    Gone
    episode S7.E16 february 2006
    A female student from Montreal goes missing during a class trip to New York City after she spends a night partying with three cocky prep school boys.
  • 7.6
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    Class
    episode S7.E17 march 2006
    A Hudson University co-ed dependent on financial aid is found murdered with an unexplained influx of cash. Her wealthy roommate is found with one of her rings, making her a suspect as the two were not friends. Benson, Fin, and Stabler have several theories about her murderer and their motive and investigate the various suspects; the roommate, her childhood friend, and someone connected to a heavily trafficked website where the victim was selling term papers for cash.
  • 8.8
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    Fault
    episode S7.E19 april 2006
    A serial paedophile murders members of a family and kidnaps the two younger children.
  • 8.2
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    Web
    episode S7.E21 may 2006
    After a young boy claims molestation, the investigation turns from his pedophile father to another family member.
  • 7.8
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    Clock
    episode S8.E2 september 2006
    A 17-year-old with the features of a little girl is kidnapped. Stabler sees parallels with his own daughter, and must deal with a new partner.
  • 8
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    Choreographed
    episode S8.E9 november 2006
    A model is poisoned to death, and it could be connected to a love triangle between her manipulative choreographer husband, his mistress, and the mistress' jealous husband.
  • 8
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    Loophole
    episode S8.E13 february 2007
    An investigation into a potential child pornography case actually uncovers a chemical company testing possibly toxic products on a group of building tenants.
  • 7.9
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    Haystack
    episode S8.E15 february 2007
    A woman accused of killing her baby commits suicide after being interrogated by an overzealous television reporter. It later turns out that the baby was kidnapped, perhaps by the baby's biological father.
  • 8
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    Philadelphia
    episode S8.E16 february 2007
    Olivia finds her biological brother in New Jersey, but discovers that he is under investigation by local police for sexual crimes. But her obsession with finding him puts another investigation in jeopardy as well as her partnership with Elliot.
  • 8.1
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    Sin
    episode S8.E17 march 2007
    A gay male sex worker is murdered, and the investigation reveals that a pastor who preaches extreme intolerance toward homosexuals may have had a relationship with him.
  • 8.1
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    Impulsive
    episode S9.E3 october 2007
    Benson and Stabler arrest a high school teacher for having sex with one of her students, but the teacher alleges that the student raped her.
  • 8
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    Svengali
    episode S9.E6 november 2007
    A grisly murder scene at the bottom of an elevator shaft leads SVU detectives to a group of individuals who are under the spell of a charismatic, imprisoned serial killer.
  • 7.8
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    Fight
    episode S9.E8 november 2007
    Two troubled brothers are connected to murder investigation. However, detective Lake suspects that they are trying to put their lives back together, and that they are victims of a setup by a gang leader.
  • 7.9
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    Streetwise
    episode S9.E11 january 2008
    A Park Avenue socialite's body is found in NYC'S Central Park, and the investigation leads SVU to the father figure of a homeless "street family."
  • 9
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    Authority
    episode S9.E17 april 2008
    A man accused of impersonating a police officer over a telephone and telling a fast food manager to sexually assault an employee is found not guilty, and as a result becomes a vocal crusader telling other people to defy authority figures.
  • 7.8
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    Retro
    episode S10.E5 october 2008
    While investigating a case involving a baby infected with the AIDS virus, the unit uncovers a connection to a doctor who claims that AIDS does not exist and is part of a government conspiracy.
  • 8.1
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    Babes
    episode S10.E6 november 2008
    The grisly murder of a homeless man leads detectives to four high school girls with a pregnancy pact. But after their pact is revealed, somebody drives the girls' ringleader to an apparent suicide.
  • 8.1
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    Smut
    episode S10.E10 december 2008
    SVU tries to make a case against an accused serial rapist who drugs his victims so that they have no recollection of the incidents.
  • 8.6
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    Hardwired
    episode S11.E5 october 2009
    Benson and Stabler are faced with a dilemma when a child-abuse suspect offers to reveal the identity of the leader of a controversial civil rights group in exchange for amnesty.
  • 7.7
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    Spooked
    episode S11.E6 october 2009
    A grisly double homicide appears to be drug related, but the FBI soon becomes involved, and Benson and Stabler are led toward a new motive.
  • 7.9
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    Users
    episode S11.E7 november 2009
    A controversial therapist goes under the microscope after a teenage girl under his care is killed. During the investigation, Dr. Huang risks his medical license to rescue a heroin addict who is also under his care.
  • 8.1
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    Quickie
    episode S11.E11 january 2010
    While investigating the death of a sexually-active 17-year-old girl, SVU finds that a suspect in the case is deliberately spreading HIV to his many sexual partners.
  • 7.9
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    Savior
    episode S11.E14 march 2010
    SVU tries to make the case against a Christian zealot who is targeting prostitutes, but it hangs on the cooperation of a pregnant prostitute who is terrified of the man and has her own demons.
  • 7.7
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    Conned
    episode S11.E19 april 2010
    An abused, schizophrenic 16-year-old is a suspect in the brutal murder of his close friend. But why is Fin's son protecting the suspect from the police? And did his psychiatrist misdiagnose him for selfish reasons?
  • 7.4
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    Beef
    episode S11.E20 april 2010
    Investigation reveals that a victim with multiple DNA samples whose throat was slashed was an aspiring investigative journalist about to expose the highly unsanitary practices at a meat-packing plant.
  • 8.4
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    Branded
    episode S12.E6 october 2010
    A woman sexually assaults and brands two men. But after she is caught, she claims that it is revenge for an assault on her by the targets from when she was a teenager.
  • 7.8
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    Flight
    episode S12.E15 february 2011
    SVU investigates whether a wealthy and powerful defense contractor forced an underage French girl to give him an inappropriate massage, and whether he used his ex-girlfriend to arrange the encounter.
  • 8.1
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    Spectacle
    episode S12.E16 february 2011
    After a sexual assault is broadcast over a university Intranet, Stabler is led to a computer expert on campus who is threatening to kill the victim if SVU doesn't look into the disappearance of his brother in 2003.
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    Bully
    episode S12.E18 february 2011
    Benson and Stabler believe that the abusive CEO of a wine company killed her CFO, but why are the company's other employees refusing to step forward and expose her?