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Felipe Rico-Ceballos \/ Costa Mesa Police Department <\/p>\n
COSTA MESA, Calif. – The Costa Mesa<\/a> Police Department is calling for public assistance following the arrest of a rideshare <\/a>driver charged with multiple counts of sexual assault and kidnapping.\u00a0<\/p>\n Investigators are working to determine if other passengers were targeted by the suspect across Southern California.<\/a><\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n On February 27, a woman reported being sexually assaulted after an encounter in the 2100 block of Newport Boulevard.\u00a0<\/p>\n The suspect, identified as Felipe Rico-Ceballos of Ontario, allegedly offered to help the intoxicated victim get home while posing as her rideshare driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to police, Rico-Ceballos drove her to an undisclosed location to commit the assault before dropping her off elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rico-Ceballos was taken into custody on March 5 and has since been charged by the Orange County<\/a> District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n In a statement released Wednesday, the Costa Mesa Police Department noted that “During the course of the investigation, it was determined Rico-Ceballos does work for a rideshare company.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Due to this professional background, authorities expressed concern that other individuals may have had similar traumatic encounters.<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Due to the suspect’s employment, police said there may be other victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n If you have any information regarding Rico-Ceballos, or if you believe you or someone you know has been a victim, you are urged to contact Detective E. Peralta at 714-754-5039 or Sergeant J. Jacobi at 714-754-5352.<\/p>\n The Source: This report is based on information from the Costa Mesa Police Department and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Orange County<\/a>Costa Mesa<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Felipe Rico-Ceballos \/ Costa Mesa Police Department COSTA MESA, Calif. – The Costa Mesa Police Department is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1184,3372,2042,100,611,1181],"class_list":["post-215487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-ca","tag-costa-mesa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215487","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=215487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}