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Police arrested a 32-year-old Costa Mesa man Monday on suspicion of

raping a 34-year-old woman, officials said.

Leonard Jay Neufeld has been charged with forcible rape and sexual

penetration with a foreign object, said Costa Mesa Police Lt. Dale

Birney.

He said the alleged crime occurred sometime during the last five or

six days in the 2500 block of Kincaid Drive and that Neufeld knew the

victim.

“They were acquaintances and not neighbors, but lived close by” one

another, he said.

Neufeld is being held in Costa Mesa jail in lieu of a $50,000 bail.

His arraignment is scheduled to take place today at Harbor Justice

Center.