Police investigate reported rape Police are investigating...
Police investigate reported rape
Police are investigating an alleged kidnapping and rape that
occurred Saturday morning in North Laguna.
A woman was allegedly raped and beaten after being kidnapped by
three men, who took her out of Laguna and left her in Irvine, police
said.
Police are calling this a random attack and do not have any leads.
The victim told police she was walking alone at 3 a.m. on Cliff
Drive, near Beverly Street and North Coast Highway, when a man jumped
out of a dark-colored sedan and pulled her inside the car with two
other men, police said.
The car drove off with the woman in the back seat, police said.
The men allegedly took the woman to a remote area and raped and beat
her, police said. At the time, the woman did not know where she was;
police later determined she was driven to an area outside Laguna
Beach, in unincorporated Orange County, police said.
When the woman tried to escape, the men caught her, drove to
another location a short distance away, and raped her again, police
said.
The men then left the woman and fled the scene, police said. The
woman reported seeing lights in the distance, which turned out to be
a security guard shack at the Irvine Regional Park. Though no guards
were inside the shack, the woman found a payphone and called 911.
The woman was taken to a hospital in Orange and treated; her
injuries were not life-threatening, police said. The hospital
notified Laguna Beach Police after details of the abduction surfaced,
police said.
Police are awaiting DNA test results.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Det. Matt August,
(949) 497-0371.
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Laguna Beach police are looking for a classic 1962 Dewey Weber surfboard stolen from a car parked near Las Brisas restaurant June
15. The surfboard, valued at $2,000, is 10-feet, four-inches and is
described as being orange, reddish brown and white. Anyone with
information is asked to contact Det. Andrew Ross, (949) 497-0369.
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