{"id":155789,"date":"2026-01-30T01:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155789\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:14:06","slug":"man-accused-of-assaulting-woman-at-santa-ana-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155789\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Accused of Assaulting Woman at Santa Ana Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old man was behind bars Thursday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a customer at a business inside the MainPlace Mall in Santa Ana.<\/p>\n<p>Jermi Gerardo Characoto Caraballo was arrested Wednesday and booked on suspicion of sexual assault, according to the Santa Ana Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>He was accused of attacking a 44-year-old woman on Jan. 15.<\/p>\n<p>The woman contacted police about 9 p.m. that day and reported that while purchasing facial cream at a mall business, she was offered a free facial, police said. During the facial and massage, the suspect sexually assaulted her, police alleged.<\/p>\n<p>The woman later drove to the police station to report the alleged assault, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old man was behind bars Thursday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a customer at a business inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[23690,163,165,164,4163,15793,21777,1557],"class_list":["post-155789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-accused","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-assaulting","tag-mall","tag-santa","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155789","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=155789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}