{"id":465081,"date":"2026-09-16T01:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465081\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T01:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:50:24","slug":"man-who-raped-women-while-posing-as-rideshare-driver-in-sf-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465081\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Raped Women While Posing As Rideshare Driver In SF Sentenced To Life In Prison: DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 7, undercover officers in the city&#8217;s South of Market neighborhood observed suspicious behavior from a driver operating what appeared to be a ride-hailing vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>Officers stopped the vehicle and identified the driver as Vilchez Lazo and took a DNA sample for analysis and comparison, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators confirmed that Vilchez Lazo&#8217;s DNA matched the forensic evidence from the four alleged sexual assaults and took him into custody on suspicion of rape. Police dubbed him the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/san-francisco\/alleged-rideshare-rapist-appears-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rideshare Rapist<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These women were remarkable in calling upon a level of bravery that no person should ever have to experience,&#8221; Assistant District Attorney Michelle Brass said. &#8220;They showed grace, courage, and strength during this excruciatingly long process. I hope these verdicts and this sentence provide them with some sense of closure and peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 7, undercover officers in the city&#8217;s South of Market neighborhood observed suspicious behavior from a driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-465081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465081","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=465081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}