Authorities arrested a 65-year-old man accused of posing as a lawyer and raping a girl who got here to him looking for assist together with her immigration standing.
On Nov. 12, a girl reported that she had been sexually assaulted by Jose Bernal after she refused his advances and tried to go away his workplace on 1203 E. seventeenth St. in Santa Ana, in keeping with the Santa Ana Police Division.
Bernal advised the sufferer that his authorized providers would price her $14,000 however that he’d provide a reduction if she entered a relationship with him, in keeping with police. After the assault, he allegedly advised her he’d pay her $400 to not report the incident to police.
On Wednesday, practically one yr because the accuser filed a police report, police printed a bulletin looking for the general public’s assist in discovering Bernal as a part of their “Wished Wednesday” sequence.
Jose Bernal was arrested Thursday morning, a day after police posted a bulletin looking for the general public’s assist in discovering him.
(Santa Ana Police Division)
The next morning, Bernal was arrested in Tustin after workers at a McDonald’s acknowledged him from the social media put up and notified legislation enforcement.
There isn’t any Jose Bernal listed as a licensed lawyer or paralegal within the State Bar of California or the California Alliance of Paralegal Assn.’s on-line directories.
A tax preparation enterprise known as BMB Multiservices is listed on the deal with the place the alleged assault came about. NBC4 spoke to a person who recognized himself as Bernal’s brother and mentioned that the enterprise belongs to his sister and that Bernal had labored for it.
Detectives consider there could also be extra victims and are asking anybody with info to contact Detective M. Tapia at (714) 245-8379 or mtapia@santa-ana.org.
