Man Who Crashed Trying to Flee Police Held in Sexual Assaults
A man suspected in a series of sexual assaults from Highland Park to Silver Lake over the past week is in custody, the Los Angeles Police Department reported Wednesday.
Paul Jimenez, whose age and address were not available, was arrested Tuesday morning after a brief car chase that ended when he crashed near Washington Boulevard and Bronson Avenue. After the crash, the suspect fled but was caught a short distance away, according to police.
Jimenez is suspected of kidnaping a woman as she sat in a car in a convenience store lot at Riverside and Fletcher drives at about 5:25 a.m Saturday, said Detective Gary Greubel of the LAPD Northeast Division. The attacker drove the victim to a remote area of Pasadena and raped her, according to Greubel.
Jimenez also will be charged with four attacks on young women in Highland Park that occurred last week. In each case, a man driving a stolen pickup truck tried to kidnap victims in the area of Avenue 50 between Figueroa Street and El Paso Drive, according to Detective Greg Kleeman of the Northeast Division.
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