Matthew Werner, 46, of Las Vegas is in custody in a Los Angeles jail on accusations of being a violent serial predator who met women using aliases on social media.
A Las Vegas man is in custody in connection with more than half a dozen sexual assaults across Los Angeles County since 2015, with LAPD detectives now saying they believe he may have assaulted more victims after using aliases on social media and dating apps.
“He’d meet the women under a false name. In one case, he pretended to be a soccer player.” Hopkins said, and once he was alone with the women, sometimes at hotels, he would “take cocaine and become aggressive and forcibly attack them.” The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office charged Werner last year in a reported March 4, 2015, rape and a Sept. 7, 2019, rape and oral copulation assault. Those charges grew from an L.A. County sheriff’s Special Victims Bureau investigation into the 2019 case. He has pleaded not guilty and remains in custody pending a hearing slated for later this month.
After connecting Werner to several other rapes in part through forensic evidence, Hopkins said, the LAPD now believe the Mid-Wilshire attack that Feb. 25 was one of a series he was responsible for in 2015.
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