Crime & Safety
2 Charged With Kidnapping, Sexual Assault Appear In Court
The pair is accused of kidnapping a San Francisco woman and sexually assaulting her during a ride to Sonoma.
SONOMA COUNTY, CA — Two men pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Sonoma County Superior Court to kidnapping a San Francisco woman and sexually assaulting her during a ride to Sonoma in April. Fredi A. Lopez-Flores, 33, of Novato, and Alejandro May Quintero, 24, of Sonoma, are charged with kidnapping to commit a crime and forced rape, sodomy and oral copulation on April 14.
Their preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 12.
The men allegedly picked up a woman at Stanyan and Fulton streets in San Francisco as she waited for a ride-hailing company driver to take her home from a bar.
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Quintero forced her into a Dodge and attacked and sexually assaulted her as Lopez-Flores drove to Sonoma and after they arrived there, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office.
Lopez-Flores bought a condom at a gas station in Sonoma and sexually assaulted the woman in the Dodge, the sheriff's office said. The woman escaped the vehicle around 5 a.m. with the help of a Safeway store
employee.
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Sheriff's detectives reviewed surveillance camera video from businesses and bridges in the Bay Area. Video at the Golden Gate Bridge and Sonoma businesses showed a black Dodge Magnum with a blue neon license plate light, the sheriff's office said.
A flier with a picture of the Dodge was sent to law enforcement agencies in the Bay Area, and a Novato police officer recognized the vehicle from an unrelated arrest that entailed towing Lopez-Flores' car, sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Crum said.
Data from Lopez-Flores cellphone company indicated he was in the area of San Francisco on April 14 where the woman was forced into the vehicle and at the time the Dodge arrived in Sonoma, Crum said.
Lopez-Flores was arrested at his job in San Rafael on June 1, and Quintero was arrested June 2 at a Sonoma car wash where he worked, Crum said.
Both men are being held in the Sonoma County jail.
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