{"id":74310,"date":"2016-10-18T14:35:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T21:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=74310"},"modified":"2016-10-24T14:37:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T21:37:45","slug":"lancaster-rapist-convicted-of-sexually-assaulting-five-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/10\/18\/lancaster-rapist-convicted-of-sexually-assaulting-five-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster rapist convicted of sexually assaulting five women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LANCASTER – A Lancaster man has been convicted of sexually assaulting five women over a five-year period, including a 19-year-old student whom he abducted near Antelope Valley College and sexually assaulted in a vacant home.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated about two days before finding<\/span> James Smith<\/b>, 38, guilty late Monday of \u00a0nine felony counts — 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith was convicted of sexually assaulting 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. <\/span><\/p>\n

Smith was arrested June 16, 2014, in Lancaster after the final attack. He pulled the young woman into his car near 33rd Street West and Avenue K (across from the Antelope Valley College campus), then drove her to a vacant house on the 43000 Block of 33rd Street West and sexually assaulted her, sheriff\u2019s officials said. [Read more here<\/a>.]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Shortly\u00a0after the attack, deputies found Smith inside his vehicle parked in the 1000 block of West Avenue H-12, and he was arrested, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith, who has remained jailed without bail since he was taken into custody, is due back in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom for sentencing Nov. 2.<\/span><\/p>\n

He faces up to life in state prison.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Police Department\u2019s Robbery-Homicide Division and the Los Angeles Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s Special Victims Bureau investigated the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Previous related stories<\/span>: <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Lancaster man charged with serial rapes<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Teen sexually assaulted near AVC, suspect caught<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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LANCASTER – A Lancaster man has been convicted of sexually assaulting five women over a five-year period, including a 19-year-old student whom he abducted near Antelope Valley College and sexually assaulted in a vacant home. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated about two days before finding James Smith, 38, guilty late Monday of \u00a0nine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}