SANTA ANA, CA \u2014 A 26-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at a retail business inside an Orange County mall, police said. <\/p>\n
The assault was reported on Jan. 15 at around 9 p.m., when a 44-year-old woman went to the Santa Ana Police Department to report the incident, police said. <\/p>\n
The woman told investigators that she had visited Bee & Co., a business inside of MainPlace Mall in Santa Ana, where she bought facial cream and was offered a complimentary facial.<\/p>\n
After agreeing to the service, the woman said she was introduced to a male employee who escorted her to a back room for a facial and massage. <\/p>\n
According to the woman, the employee sexually assaulted her during the service. <\/p>\n
The suspect, identified as Jermi Gerardo Characoto Caraballo, 26, of Santa Ana, was arrested on Jan 28. in the MainPlace Mall parking lot. <\/p>\n
He was booked into the Santa Ana Jail on sexual assault-related charges, and bail was set at $100,000, police said.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe there may be additional victims or witnesses connected to the case. Anyone with information is urged to contact Detective Corporal D. Gray at 714-245-8381 or via email at dgray@santa-ana.org. Anonymous tips may also be submitted through Orange County Crime Stoppers at 1-855-TIP-OCCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA ANA, CA \u2014 A 26-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-157992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157992","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=157992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}