SSU Student Accused Of Drugging, Raping Woman On Campus: Police

SANTA ROSA, CA — A 21-year-old Sonoma State University student was arraigned in Sonoma County Superior Court Wednesday on charges of rape and sodomy of a woman on the Rohnert Park campus with the use of a drug in December. Patrick James O'Regan delayed entering a plea until May 30. He was granted pre-trial release with enhanced supervision and was served a criminal protective order prohibiting contact with the victim.

O'Regan agreed to surrender his cellphone to the District Attorney's Office and to allow police to search his electronic devices and disclose any passwords.

In a statement Wednesday, Sonoma State University said the University Police Department received a report around 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 8 of a sexual assault that occurred late in the evening of Dec. 7 in the university residential community.

Police conducted an extensive investigation that ended in late April, and arrested O'Regan Wednesday at the Sonoma County criminal court complex on a single charge of rape, according to the university.

The Sonoma County District Attorney's Office filed a complaint against O'Regan on April 16 and a warrant for O'Regan's arrest was issued the next day, according to court records.

The complaint alleges that on Dec. 7, O'Regan committed rape and sodomy of the woman, who was prevented from resisting by an intoxicating anesthetic and controlled substance late on the evening of Dec. 7.

— Bay City News Service