{"id":31449,"date":"2025-10-31T05:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/31449\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T05:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:32:33","slug":"socal-police-officer-was-among-hollywood-producers-rape-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/31449\/","title":{"rendered":"SoCal police officer was among Hollywood producer’s rape victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s unknown whether self-proclaimed \u201centertainment professional\u201d David Pearce knew the fate of the women he was prosecuted for drugging and raping over a 14-year period.<\/p>\n

What is certain, however, is that one of those women \u2014 who transformed her sexual assault trauma into a service career \u2014 wasn\u2019t there to witness his sentencing.<\/p>\n

Pearce was handed a 146-year prison sentence Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles Superior Court after being convicted of<\/a> first-degree murder for the overdose deaths of model Christy Giles and architect Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, as well as the rape of seven other women from 2007 to 2021.<\/p>\n

Among Pearce\u2019s victims was La Mesa Police Officer Lauren Craven, according to the L.A. County district attorney\u2019s office. The 25-year-old officer was struck and killed by a vehicle<\/a> on the 8 Freeway near San Diego on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n

The New York Post first reported her connection to the case.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Craven was helping motorists involved in a traffic collision when she was fatally struck. One of those individuals also was killed by the same driver. A suspect has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Craven was honored with a funeral procession<\/a> from San Diego\u2019s Snapdragon Stadium to Skyline Church in Rancho San Diego on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The L.A. County district attorney\u2019s office did not confirm any details other than that Pearce was accused of sexually assaulting Craven in February 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody dropped something in her drink, and then when she was unconscious applied IV drugs and kept her for a day and a half,\u201d her father, David Craven<\/a>, told NBC 7 San Diego.<\/p>\n

Afterward, \u201cshe decided right then and there, \u2018I\u2019m going to become a police officer,\u2019\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p>\n

At the time, Craven was a student at Loyola Marymount University. She graduated in 2023, entered the police academy and joined the La Mesa Police Department in February 2024.<\/p>\n

Her father said his 115-pound daughter took close to a year off to build her strength for the rigors of training.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was her dream,\u201d her father said of graduating from the police academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s unknown whether self-proclaimed \u201centertainment professional\u201d David Pearce knew the fate of the women he was prosecuted for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14547,22958,217,6314,13052,22963,21888,48,52,51,47,50,49,22960,346,22962,22959,74,2897,9678,22961],"class_list":["post-31449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-craven","tag-david-pearce","tag-day","tag-father","tag-february","tag-funeral-procession","tag-hollywood-producer","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-multiple-woman","tag-office","tag-police-academy","tag-rape-victim","tag-san-diego","tag-sentencing","tag-snapdragon-stadium","tag-socal-police-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31449","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=31449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}