Police Seek Help in Finding Serial Rapist
Police issued a warning Tuesday and requested help from the public in tracking down a serial rapist who has attacked four women in the San Fernando Valley since late December.
“There is a significant manhunt” in progress, said Deputy Chief Martin Pomeroy, commanding officer of the LAPD Valley Bureau.
The man was described as a Latino between 25 and 30 years old, with black hair and brown eyes, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing about 150 pounds. He has a pierced eyebrow with a small hoop through it. In at least one of the attacks, he was armed with a semiautomatic handgun.
The rapist is said to be driving a 1996 Dodge Neon with the license plate number 3PCR994, a vehicle that was rented but never returned to a company in Riverside.
He has targeted petite Latina women in their early 30s who were going to work in the early morning, police said.
In two of the cases, the man approached the women asking for directions and in one attack he stopped and offered to help a woman whose car had stalled, police said. He put the women in his car, raped them and released them at a different location.
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