{"id":157177,"date":"2026-01-30T23:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157177\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:14:06","slug":"man-charged-with-sex-assault-at-santa-ana-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157177\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged with Sex Assault at Santa Ana Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old man was charged Friday with sexually assaulting a customer at a business inside the MainPlace Mall in Santa Ana.<\/p>\n<p>Jermi Gerardo Characoto Caraballo was charged with two counts of sexual battery by fraud and a count of oral copulation of an unconscious person, all felonies.<\/p>\n<p>He was accused of attacking a 44-year-old woman on Jan. 15, Santa Ana police reported.<\/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. Caraballo \u2014 an employee of the store \u2014 performed the facial, during which, he sexually assaulted her, police claimed. A further explanation of the incident was not provided.<\/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 charged Friday with sexually assaulting a customer at a business inside the MainPlace Mall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2598,10753,15793,21777],"class_list":["post-157177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-assault","tag-charged","tag-mall","tag-santa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157177","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=157177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157177\/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=157177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}