Police on Monday sought the public's help to identify additional possible victims of a 37-year-old ride-share driver suspected of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old in Van Nuys.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the victim was walking home in the area of Gilmore Street and Sylmar Avenue, near Van Nuys Elementary School, on Aug. 13 when the suspect drove up next to the victim in a 2021 white Toyota Prius. Police say the suspect, Jonh Erik Bastidas Arenas, opened the passenger door of the Prius, brandished a weapon and directed the victim to enter the car.
"Out of fear the victim complied with his demand," LAPD said in a news release. "While inside the vehicle, the suspect sexually assaulted the victim."Investigators reviewed surveillance video from the area and identified Arenas as a suspect, and the victim later confirmed Arenas was the attacker, according to the LAPD.
Police arrested Arenas on Thursday and he was booked into the LAPD Van Nuys Community Police Station jail. Investigators also discovered Arenas had been employed as a contract driver for multiple ride-share services since September 2021.City News Service contributed to this report.
OMG!!!
Lawyers be like, he didn't had his meds that day.
Give him life in prison!
In California you should know African and Hispanic are protected. Democrats need their votes, they can’t be lock up.
Wait, I thought they did background checks…
tRUMP Voter Behavior! ☝🏿🧐🇺🇸
Wth 🤬
He’ll be let out probably with how Komifornia law works.
We need to bring back electric chair
At what point do we actually start putting these type of people down? I don’t mean give them the death penalty where they get to sit and wait for years to MAYBE get put down?
C C W
Street justice! Those that assault children deserve to be in general population.
slime ball!
How fast until they let him out ? CA on crime is a joke. Hope the girl is OK
Inmates do harm on these kinds of guys
If crime were halted, even slowed, millions of jobs would be lost. Criminal activity is Big Business. Law enforcement hauls them in. The legal system defends them. The judicial system lets them out. The circle continues maintaining millions of good paying jobs.
Death row
This is horrible, Uber/Lyft do background checks and drivers are not suppose to carry guns. This guy is a real creep.
Illegal alien trash.
This is the type of people that newsom wants to give them citizenship and biden open borders policies
They need to start doing background checks
Well if they let him out no one should be charged in retaliation, because the system isn’t doing their job. For all the dudes shooting to their block for dumb💩well y don’t you step up n remove folks like him? U haven’t been caught thus far!
RATAS COMO ESTE, DEBERÍAN DE MANDARLOS A LA CÁMARA DE GAS Y SIN JUICIO. 😡😡😡
Wtf?
Do you people have these sorts of sick reactions to all the other violent crimes involving human beings being murdered, stabbed to death, brutalized to death, stomped and brutalized or just to a d**k being put into a female’s vagina against her will?
Punk M.F.’r!
And y’all wanna give these ppl 🪪 card to be part time citizens
Sad, I’m sure he’ll be out in the morning
Why are so many Hispanic men the ones getting caught for brazen acts of child predation and sexual assault? What must go on in those countries?
Lock him up!
Oh, so what’s he going to get? $200 bond? Judges are a joke here
I hear inmates love these kind of guys
When a dog bites a child they’re euthanized. What’s the issue here?
Disgusting p o $hit
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