MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) — Police are trying to find a South Bay barber who has been charged with sexually assaulting two males, allegedly kidnapping one in all his personal purchasers within the course of.
Franklin Enrique Sarceño Orla, 34, skipped court docket after posting bail. He faces life in jail, if convicted.
Orla’s Mountain View house sits empty after police say he fled after being arrested for sexual assault and investigators worry there could also be extra victims.
“We’ve got cause to imagine that there are at the least 20, if no more,” Santa Clara Co. District Lawyer’s Workplace Sexual Assault Unit Deputy District Lawyer Christopher Paynter mentioned. “It does appear that these varied victims have been both unconscious, or intoxicated, or a mix of each based mostly on the video proof that has been obtained by legislation enforcement so far.”
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Investigators say two victims describe dropping consciousness after sharing drinks with Sarceño Orla this yr.
“Two ways in which we appear to see a sample of are both, nightlife the place it is both at a membership or a bar, or some setting like that, the place the victims would meet up after which one thing would occur after,” Paynter mentioned. “Or, he would know them by way of the occupation that he had as a barber.”
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Courtroom paperwork reveal that one of many victims was unlawfully restrained whereas Sarceño Orla sodomized him.
The opposite, a shopper of Sarceño Orla’s residence barber enterprise, was allegedly kidnapped and carried away after being intoxicated by an anesthetic substance.
“Via the investigation, there was video proof obtained that does depict varied assaults, and that is nonetheless data that we’re processing and gathering,” Paynter mentioned.
Sarceño Orla was first arrested and posted a $250,000 bond in August for sexual assault, earlier than the second allegations surfaced.
He missed his October court docket date and investigators are assured he’s not within the space.
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Proof suggests assaults could date again to 2018 and the District Lawyer’s workplace is asking for different victims to come back ahead.
“We’ll very a lot take precedence of their anonymity and defending their names as a lot as we are able to all through this course of,” Paynter mentioned. “We might encourage them, in the event that they do assume they’re a possible sufferer of the defendant, to hunt testing for sexually transmitted ailments.”
If in case you have any data contact Mountain View Police at (650) 903-6618 or e mail Detective Lauren Riffel at lauren.riffel@mountainview.gov or Detective Guillermo de Lira at guillermo.delira@mountainview.gov.
Or contact the Santa Clara County District Lawyer’s Workplace at (408) 792-1013 or e mail cpaynter@dao.sccgov.org
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