SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former security guard pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 24 years in state prison yesterday for posing as a police officer and forcibly raping a human trafficking victim.

Circumstances of the Case

• At the time of the crime, Ramos was employed as a security guard in Santa Ana.
• On the night of Dec. 11, 2015, Ramos contacted 19-year-old Jane Doe, whom he did not know, and solicited the human trafficking victim for commercial sex.
• The defendant entered a Ramada Inn hotel room in Anaheim with the intent to sexually assault the victim.
• Ramos showed the victim his security guard badge, told her he was a police officer, and threatened to arrest the victim if she did not have sex with him.
• The defendant then forcibly raped Jane Doe and used a GoPro video camera to record the entire incident.
• Ramos forced Jane Doe to orally copulate him, at which time the victim, who was in a towel, grabbed the defendant's keys and GoPro camera and ran out of the hotel room to a nearby store to report that she had been raped.
• APD, who investigated this case, responded to the scene and arrested Ramos outside the Ramada Inn.

Deputy District Attorney Brad Schoenleben of the HEAT Unit prosecuted this case.

*Incident captured on GoPro camera

Orange County District Attorney / Case # 15NF3329  / July 26, 2017