GREENFIELD — Two more arrests were made last week in connection with the Aug. 9 rape of a 14-year-old girl who was left unconscious on a sidewalk in Greenfield.
According to the Greenfield Police Department, the ongoing investigation led to the arrests of a 22-year-old man and a 14-year-old male juvenile for allegedly aiding and abetting the primary suspects in the case. Neither took part in the actual sexual assault, police said.
ANGEL RAMIREZ
FELIPE BAUTISTA
The man — identified as Angel Ramirez by the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office — was also charged with committing a similar crime against another minor. Police said the second case involved the sexual molestation of a 13-year-old girl.
The additional arrests bring the total number of people in custody to five, four of whom are minors.
Police originally arrested three teenage boys — two 16-year-olds and one 17-year-old — Aug. 11 on charges of rape, sodomy and oral copulation of the 14-year-old victim, whose alcohol intoxication was near lethal levels when she was found lying on the sidewalk in the 1000 block of Scott Circle. Video footage from a nearby home security system captured the boys dumping her on the ground.
One of the boys is also under investigation for a similar incident that happened July 11, when an unconscious 12-year-old female was dumped in the 300 block of Ninth Street in Greenfield. She was intoxicated near lethal levels as well, but police said there was no indication she was sexually assaulted.
All four Greenfield teenagers made a court appearance last Friday. The District Attorney’s Office is attempting to try one of them, 17-year-old Felipe Bautista, as an adult. Investigators released his name in the hope that more victims will come forward.
