Security guard who pretended to be a cop and raped a woman heading to prison for 24 years

ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Case # 15NF3329

Date: July 26, 2017

FORMER SECURITY GUARD SENTENCED TO 24 YEARS IN PRISON FOR POSING AS POLICE OFFICER AND FORCIBLY RAPING HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIM

*Incident captured on GoPro camera

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former security guard pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 24 years in state prison yesterday for posing as a police officer and forcibly raping a human trafficking victim.

Defendant: Raul Antonio Ramos, 28, Westminster

Pleaded guilty on July 25, 2017, to one felony count each of:

• Forcible rape
• Rape by threat to arrest
• Forcible oral copulation
• Impersonating a peace officer

Sentence:

• 24 years and eight months in state prison

Circumstances of the Case

• At the time of the crime, Ramos was employed as a security guard in Santa Ana.
• On the night of Dec. 11, 2015, Ramos contacted 19-year-old Jane Doe, whom he did not know, and solicited the human trafficking victim for commercial sex.
• The defendant entered a Ramada Inn hotel room in Anaheim with the intent to sexually assault the victim.
• Ramos showed the victim his security guard badge, told her he was a police officer, and threatened to arrest the victim if she did not have sex with him.
• The defendant then forcibly raped Jane Doe and used a GoPro video camera to record the entire incident.
• Ramos forced Jane Doe to orally copulate him, at which time the victim, who was in a towel, grabbed the defendant’s keys and GoPro camera and ran out of the hotel room to a nearby store to report that she had been raped.
• APD, who investigated this case, responded to the scene and arrested Ramos outside the Ramada Inn.

Deputy District Attorney Brad Schoenleben of the HEAT Unit prosecuted this case.

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TONY RACKAUCKAS, District Attorney

Susan Kang Schroeder, Chief of Staff
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