Santa Ana : Rape Suspect Arrested After Police Spot Car
A Santa Ana man was arrested Tuesday night when a Tustin police officer noticed that the car he was driving matched the description of a getaway car used by a rape suspect earlier in the day, police said.
Robert Joseph Kloberdanz, 24, was booked at County Jail on suspicion of raping a 28-year-old convenience store clerk, according to Orange and Tustin police.
The woman had been working alone in a store at about 3:10 a.m. in the area of Tustin and Walnut avenues in Orange when she was attacked, police said. When two customers entered the store, the rapist fled. However, a witness in a car followed the man to the area of Bristol Street and Memory Lane in Santa Ana before losing sight of him, police said.
Shortly before 9 p.m., a Tustin police officer assigned to a special crime suppression detail, spotted a vehicle matching the description of the suspect’s pickup truck in the area of McFadden and Grand avenues in Santa Ana, police said. The officer stopped the truck and arrested Kloberdanz.
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