{"id":436533,"date":"2026-08-18T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436533\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:30:10","slug":"man-sentenced-for-sex-assaults-at-carlsbads-calavera-preserve-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436533\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced for sex assaults at Carlsbad\u2019s Calavera Preserve \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/suspect-arrested-suspicion-assaulting-several-women-hiking-calavera-preserve\/3970632\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">man who sexually assaulted several women<\/a> while passing them at a popular hiking area in Carlsbad was sentenced Monday to six months in county jail and must register as a sex offender.<\/p>\n<p>Felix Blanco, 22, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of sexual battery Monday. Carlsbad police said Blanco would approach victims at the Calavera Preserve from behind on an e-bike and hit their buttocks as he rode past.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal complaint detailed nine nine incidents between last September through Jan. 30. He pleaded guilty to four of the sexual battery counts in that case.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco was arrested on Jan. 30 after police responded to one  incident and spotted Blanco, who matched a suspect description provided by the victim, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He also pleaded guilty to a sexual battery count in a separate case involving a female victim, though it&#8217;s unclear if that case is connected to the Calavera Preserve incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who sexually assaulted several women while passing them at a popular hiking area in Carlsbad was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9378,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-436533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-carlsbad","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436533","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=436533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}