A 35-year-old Los Alamitos man was facing felony charges on Friday for allegedly posing as a police officer and kidnapping a woman.
Sean Michael Vasquez was charged with felonies including kidnapping to commit a sex offense, false imprisonment, assault and forcible oral copulation, and one misdemeanor count impersonating a police officer, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said.
If convicted, he faces 31 years to life in prison.
On May 13, prosecutors said, Vasquez posed online as a modeling agent and met a 22-year-old woman. The two communicated for several weeks before agreeing to meet for a “role-play” date: The woman would pretend to be a prostitute and meet Vasquez in a parking lot., prosecutors said.
When the woman arrived for the date in Anaheim, prosecutors said, Vasquez told her he was an undercover cop, showing her a badge. He handcuffed her and put her in the backseat where he demanded that she orally copulate him, but the woman refused, authorities said.
Prosecutors said he then kidnapped the woman and drove her to an area known for prostitution in Santa Ana, where he tried to make her rob potential sex purchasers.
Vasquez then drove the woman to a secluded location where he forced her to orally copulate him, authorities said. The woman went to Anaheim police.
Anyone with additional information on the case was asked to contact Supervising Investigator Eric Wiseman of the District Attorney’s Office at 714-347-8794.