Former security guard charged with raping woman while on duty
Hillsboro OR December 12 2018
A 28-year-old man was arrested last week on suspicion of raping an unconscious woman in March 2015 at a Hillsboro apartment complex where she lived while he was working as an armed security guard there.
Jorge U. Serrano is also under investigation for allegedly uploading sexually explicit photos and video online of the same woman and others, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. No charges have been announced in that case.
Serrano remained held in the county jail Tuesday on suspicion of first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy. The sheriff’s office began investigating Serrano in October when the woman reported discovering an online video she was in that was posted without her consent, said Deputy Jeff Talbot, a sheriff’s office spokesman.
The woman at some point reached out to Serrano on social media and he admitted to posting the footage of her, Talbot said.
According to the sheriff’s office, Serrano in 2015 encountered the woman while she was living at a complex in the 19000 block of Northwest Evergreen Parkway, drove her to a building nearby while he was on duty and engaged in consensual sex acts with her that he recorded.
He encountered the woman again after his work shift ended and sexually assaulted her in her apartment while she was unconscious, Talbot said. Authorities have not said how or why the woman became unconscious.
Serrano at the time worked for Arcadia Security & Patrol, a private security contractor that serves Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Idaho. Serrano worked for the company from July 2014 to June 2015 and patrolled several residential and commercial areas in the Portland area, the sheriff’s office said.
The video of the woman was uploaded sometime while Serrano was a corrections deputy at the Jefferson County Jail, Talbot said. He began working as a jail deputy in July 2017 and was fired last month.
Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Atkins said Serrano was fired for “lying and falsifying his deputy application.” He said Serrano lied in several areas of his application, but declined to elaborate.
Talbot said Serrano was fired before Jefferson County officials were aware of the criminal allegations.
An employee who answered the phone at Arcadia’s Vancouver branch officer said Tuesday she would pass The Oregonian/OregonLive’s request for comment to a manager. No one has yet returned the message.
Serrano was arrested at his home in Woodburn on Friday. Investigators have determined Serrano posted sexually explicit photos and videos of several women online without their knowledge, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said.
The agency asks anyone who believes they are possible victims in this case to contact the sheriff’s office at 503-846-2700.
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