MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 After waking up in a hospital, a woman said she remembered going out on June 3 and walking out of a nightclub on June 4 in Miami Beach, records show. <\/p>\n
The woman talked to Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office detectives after she woke up in pain at the HCA Florida Palm Lakes Emergency in Hialeah, records show. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe believes that she was drugged … as a result, she blacked out and only remembers walking out of the local night club … she believes she was raped,\u201d a MDSO deputy wrote, according to an arrest report.<\/p>\n
Detectives reported finding surveillance video showing Yusel Perez-Leyva “carrying” the woman to his apartment at 7220 NW 179th St., near Miami Lakes. <\/p>\n
Detectives detained Perez-Leyva, 42, on June 18 and took him to the special victims\u2019 bureau in Doral for questioning, records show. <\/p>\n
Perez-Leyva told detectives that he was working as an Uber driver when he picked up the woman in Miami Beach, according to the deputies\u2019 report. <\/p>\n
Perez-Leyva confessed to deputies that he had been \u201cengaging\u201d in \u201csexual intercourse with the intoxicated victim,\u201d a deputy wrote, according to the report. <\/p>\n
Detectives arrested Perez-Leyva shortly after 5 p.m. on June 18 in Doral, and corrections booked him at 1:10 a.m. on June 19 at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, records show. <\/p>\n
Perez-Leyva appeared in bond court on June 20, a judge ordered him to stay away from the victim, denied him bail, and ordered his pre-trial detention, according to court records. <\/p>\n
Perez-Leyva faced two first-degree felony charges: Kidnapping punishable by life, and sexual battery on a physically incapacitated or helpless victim.<\/p>\n
Perez-Leyva, who was born in Cuba, also has a hold by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the arrest report and court records. <\/p>\n
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Alberto Milian was set to preside over the case. Perez-Leyva\u2019s arraignment is at 9:30 a.m. on July 9. <\/p>\n
Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n
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