OAKLAND — Two brothers have been arrested and charged with kidnapping a 17-year-old girl and taking turns raping her in a moving car before the victim was allegedly sex-trafficked at gunpoint, according to court records.
Carlos Baltazar, 31, and Marcos Chavez-Baltazar, 26, were charged with kidnapping to commit a sex crime, rape in concert, and several other sex abuse charges in a 13-count felony complaint. Chavez-Baltazar also faces a charge of human trafficking, court records show.
Both brothers remain jailed and cannot be bailed out. The charges, filed in Alameda County on Feb. 27, all center on a Dec. 12, 2025, incident when the girl told police she was kidnapping around 9 p.m. while walking on a section of International Boulevard known for sex trafficking. She said her abductors drove around the East Bay, sexually abusing her at gunpoint in the back of a Lexus sedan, authorities said in court filings.
At some point, the girl said, Chavez-Baltazar stopped to let his brother out of the sedan, then drove away and told the girl to “earn” money through prostitution, threatening to shoot her “if she ran away or tried to leave,” authorities said in court filings. After being raped no less than a half-dozen times, the girl was dropped off in San Francisco and made her way to a local hospital, authorities allege.
The girl was able to accurately describe a tattoo on Chavez-Baltazar’s chest. Baltazar, meanwhile, was linked through a DNA hit after the girl underwent a rape test exam. The DNA matched an open Hayward sexual assault investigation from 2013, where Baltazar was identified as a suspect but never charged, according to court records.
The charging documents say Baltazar has prior convictions for carjacking, robbery, and custodial possession of a weapon. Chavez-Baltazar has been convicted of assault with a firearm, in 2016, according to court records.
The brothers are next due in court on March 20, records show.