BERKELEY \u2014 A man has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting women on an AC Transit bus as it rode through Berkeley, court records show.<\/p>\n
Isreal Mohammed, 35, was charged with felony counts of assault with intent to commit a sex crime, false imprisonment and multiple counts of misdemeanor sexual battery. He is being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, with bail set at $120,000, and he is set to be arraigned on Nov. 24, court records show.<\/p>\n
Mohammed, who also goes by Eric Jones, was arrested Nov. 6 on suspicion of sexually assaulting three women, including the bus driver, according to court filings. The criminal complaint lists two alleged victims.<\/p>\n
Police said in court filings that Mohammed punched and groped one woman, wrapped his arm around a second woman\u2019s neck and dragged her from the front of the bus and touched the \u201chip and buttocks\u201d of a third woman. The bus stopped at Dwight Way and McGee Avenue in Berkeley, where Mohammed was arrested.<\/p>\n
Multiple victims identified Mohammed at the scene, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKELEY \u2014 A man has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting women on an AC Transit bus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[32931,861,32946,23795,32947,32945,862,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-51505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-ac-transit","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-berkeley-bus-arrest","tag-berkeley-crime","tag-berkeley-sexual-assault","tag-bus-attack","tag-california-crime","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51505","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=51505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}