Lakeside Kidnaper, Rapist Sought

Ventura County sheriff’s detectives are searching for a man who kidnaped a woman at gunpoint in Lakeside and then drove her to Oak View in Ventura County, where he raped her, officials said Tuesday.

The incident began in Lakeside on Monday afternoon when the 20-year-old woman was forced into the man’s late-model green Ford station wagon at the intersection of Mapleview Street and Maine Avenue, Sheriff’s Lt. Joe Funchess said.

The man, in his mid-30s, described as 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, drove the woman to a secluded area of Oak View, where he raped her, Funchess said. He released her at 8 a.m. Tuesday outside a market, where she telephoned police for help.

Funchess said the woman did not know her attacker. Ventura County sheriff’s deputies are being joined in the investigation by detectives from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.