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An illegal migrant convicted of kidnapping and raping four women in San Francisco after pretending to be their ride-share driver will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Orlando Vilchez Lazo is facing 100 years to life behind bars for a string of felonies including kidnapping, kidnapping with intent to commit rape, rape by force or fear, and sexual penetration with a foreign object from the sickening attacks between 2013 and 2018, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced Friday.
“Justice has finally been served,” Jenkins said. “Mr. Vilchez Lazo is now being held accountable for these heinous crimes.”
The 44-year-old Peruvian national, who was arrested in July 2018, preyed on his victims by placing Uber and Lyft stickers on his car and waiting outside bars and nightclubs — targeting young women who mistook him for their actual ride.
Vilchez Lazo committed the first reported sexual assault in 2013, when he picked up a 21-year-old college student from a bar, drove her to an isolated area and raped her, according to the DA’s office.
The second victim, 22, was leaving a nightclub with her friend in February 2018 when their ride-share driver canceled on them, prosecutors said. Vilchez Lazo then pulled up and offered to drive them instead.
Both women got into the car, but about a block away from the club, Vilchez Lazo told the victim’s friend to get out and buy water — and then he sped off to “violently rape” the woman, prosecutors said.
In May 2018, another 22-year-old was attacked after Vilchez Lazo falsely claimed to be her driver. Prosecutors said he stole her phone and threatened her with a metal object when she screamed for help. --->READ MORE HERE
A man who posed as a fake rideshare driver was recently convicted for a string of violent sex assaults in San Francisco. Prosecutors said Orlando Vilchez Lazo, 44, kidnapped young women who ordered rideshares after leaving nightclubs in the South of Market neighborhood. He drove victims to remote and secluded areas to rape them.
He was dubbed by police as the “Rideshare Rapist.”
Vilchez Lazo was convicted of 11 felony counts following a jury trial. He is now facing 100 years-to-life in prison.
Vilchez Lazo had experience working for Lyft, however, he was off duty during all of the attacks.
The first sex assault occurred in 2013, when Vilchez Lazo picked up a 21-year-old college student who left a bar in the Mission District. Prosecutors said the fake rideshare driver “took her to an abandoned, industrial area, locked the car door and proceeded to rape her. She had no idea where she had been taken.”
A suspect was not identified at the time. An unknown male DNA profile was developed after the student completed a SART Forensic Examination at San Francisco General Hospital. The incident was eventually classified as a cold case.
In February of 2018, a 22-year-old woman was at a nightclub in SOMA. She left the club with a friend and ordered a rideshare to take her home. Vilchez Lazo tricked the friend into getting out of his car before he sped off, drove the victim to Mansell Street, and violently raped her, prosecutors said. --->READ MORE HERE
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