3 Arrested In Connection With Rape, Holding Woman As Sex Slave For Months In Santa Rosa Home
SANTA ROSA (CBS SF) – Authorities in Sonoma County have arrested three people accused of holding a woman hostage and sexually assaulting her inside a home for several weeks.
The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said they arrested 34-year-old Jose Angel Barajas-Mireles of Santa Rosa, 52-year-old Jaime Gomez Cisneros of Watsonville and 34-year-old Guillermo Crestino Avina of Santa Rosa.
Detectives say Barajas-Mireles was the mastermind and committed the sexual assaults. He was arrested on suspicion of aggravated sodomy, aggravated oral copulation and aggravated rape. Barajas-Mireles has been deemed a flight risk and bail has been set to $6 million.
Cisneros and Avina are accused of false imprisonment and being an accessory.
Authorities said the victim, a 22-year-old woman, had been held against her will at a home on 3555 Stony Point Road in Santa Rosa since the holidays. The woman was able to escape last Wednesday. She originally said that she was kidnapped at gunpoint three weeks earlier.
Additional charges are possible, detectives said.
