San Francisco "Rideshare Rapist" Receives Six Life Sentences for Violent Sexual Assaults
Orlando Vilchez Lazo received six life sentences after prosecutors said he posed as a rideshare driver and attacked women over five years.
- On Monday, a San Francisco judge sentenced Orlando Vilchez Lazo, 44, to six life sentences totaling 150 years to life in state prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting four women.
- Between 2013 and 2018, Vilchez Lazo targeted women leaving bars and nightclubs by posing as a rideshare driver, transporting them to remote locations where he committed violent sexual assaults.
- Police dubbed the assailant the "Rideshare Rapist" after DNA evidence entered the national CODIS database linked him to four assaults, connecting the 2013 cold case to subsequent 2018 attacks.
- San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said the sentence "ensures that his reign of terror on our community permanently ends," while authorities confirmed plans to deport the Peruvian national.
- Lyft stated Vilchez Lazo "fraudulently represented himself" to work on its platform, though he committed the crimes while off duty; the company deactivated his access following his 2018 arrest.
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Man Who Posed as Rideshare Driver to Rape SF Women Gets Six Life Sentences
A man who sexually assaulted at least four women while posing as a Lyft driver outside of nightclubs and bars, who was convicted back in April, was sentenced Monday to a term of six life sentences, or 150 years to life, in state prison.
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San Francisco's 'rideshare rapist' sentenced to 150 years in prison
When rideshare apps were still in their relative infancy, Orlando Vilchez Lazo was driving around San Francisco posing as a driver to pick up women coming out of bars and nightclubs. He'd get them in the car and drive them…
San Francisco "Rideshare Rapist" receives six life sentences for violent sexual assaults
A San Francisco judge sentenced a man to multiple life sentences after he was found guilty of violent sexual assaults and kidnappings while posing as a rideshare driver, prosecutors said.
San Francisco 'rideshare rapist' sentenced to 6 life terms
A San Francisco judge on Monday sentenced a convicted serial rapist who posed as a rideshare driver to six life sentences for kidnapping and sexually assaulting women he picked up after they left bars and nightclubs.
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