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Lancaster serial rapist gets 150 years to life

by City News Service • November 2, 2016

James Smith sits in the back of a Sheriff's patrol car June 16, 2014. Smith was taken into custody after deputies found him inside a green Buick parked in the 1000 block of West Avenue H-12 in Lancaster. (Photo by LUIS MEZA)
James Smith sits in the back of a Sheriff’s patrol car June 16, 2014. Smith was taken into custody after deputies found him inside a green Buick parked in the 1000 block of West Avenue H-12 in Lancaster. (Photo by LUIS MEZA)

LOS ANGELES – A man convicted of sexually assaulting three women in Los Angeles and two women in Lancaster was sentenced Wednesday to 150 years to life in state prison.

James Smith was convicted of nine felony charges stemming from attacks on a 21-year-old woman in Los Angeles on Dec. 24, 2009; a 43-year-old woman in Los Angeles on Sept. 24, 2011; a 33-year-old woman in Los Angeles on March 22, 2012; a 28-year-old woman in Lancaster on Dec. 6, 2013; and a 19-year-old college student in Lancaster on June 16, 2014.

Smith was arrested in Lancaster after the final attack, in which he pulled the woman into his car near the Antelope Valley College campus, drove her to a vacant house and sexually assaulted her, according to Deputy District Attorney Lowrie Mendoza.

DNA evidence linked the 38-year-old Lancaster resident to each of the attacks, the prosecutor said.

Smith was convicted of three counts of forcible rape, two counts of forcible oral copulation and one count each of sexual penetration by a foreign object, sodomy by use of force, attempted sodomy by use of force and kidnapping.

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Lancaster rapist convicted of sexually assaulting five women

Lancaster man charged with serial rapes

Teen sexually assaulted near AVC, suspect caught

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Lancaster

1 comment for "Lancaster serial rapist gets 150 years to life"

  1. Calvella Wilson says

    December 23, 2016 at 6:58 pm

    I know this man and I just can’t imagine him doing something like this….if anyone knows his information contact me

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