{"id":100387,"date":"2025-12-19T00:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100387\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:11:11","slug":"uber-driver-from-bakersfield-charged-with-raping-unconscious-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100387\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber driver from Bakersfield charged with raping unconscious passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A Bakersfield man who works as an Uber driver was charged Wednesday with raping an unconscious passenger in Camarillo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Simranjit Singh Sekhon, 35, picked up an intoxicated woman around 1 a.m. Nov. 27 outside a bar in Thousand Oaks, according to a release from Ventura County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was supposed to drive her home, prosecutors said, but instead kept driving after she fell asleep and sexually assaulted her. The woman lives in Camarillo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An investigation led to Sekhon\u2019s arrest Monday, and on Wednesday he pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Held on $500,000 bail, he\u2019s due back in Ventura County Superior Court Dec. 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A Bakersfield man who works as an Uber driver was charged Wednesday with raping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,7526,328,53929,42765,54733],"class_list":["post-100387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-camarillo","tag-kget","tag-simranjit-singh-sekhon","tag-uber-driver","tag-ventura-county-superior-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}