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A Beverly Hills man who was arrested this week in connection with the suspicious deaths of two Los Angeles women abandoned outside hospitals , was also accused on Friday of sexually assaulting four women over the course of a decade.
David Pearce , from 37 years, faces two counts of rape and one count of rape of an unconscious or sleeping person and sexual penetration with an object strange
Prosecutors said Pearce, a former club promoter, is charged with assaulting a woman in August 2010, one in February 2010 and two others in separate incidents last year.
“This case is evolving and we continue working with him law enforcement agencies to develop evidence of other possible crimes, ”Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón told the Los Angeles Times. “If you have any information, please contact the police immediately.”
Pearce and two other men have also been implicated in the deaths of two women who allegedly received a drug overdose and were presumed dead outside hospitals, after a night out last month.
Wednesday , Pearce was arrested on suspicion of voluntary manslaughter, and Brandt Osborn, of 42 years, and Michael Ansbach, of 47, were arrested on suspicion of being accomplices of involuntary manslaughter.
The three men were arrested by the Los Angeles police and an FBI task force, following an extensive investigation into the death of the model Christy Giles, from 24 years, and her friend, the architect Hilda Marcela Cabrales Arzola, from 26 years.
Women f They went to Pearce’s house on 12 November after a party on the east side, authorities said.
Osborn was arrested while working at “NCIS: Los Angeles,” an LAPD source told The Times.
Prosecutors said they are asking detectives to gather more evidence about Pearce’s alleged role in the deaths of Giles and Arzola.
Neither Osborn nor Ansbach have been charged.
According to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department records, Pearce was being held on a $ 1 million dollar bond. .
Ansbach was released Thursday on a bond of $ 100, 000 dollars and Osborn was released without charge on Friday , after being detained.
According to the investigation, homicide detectives Los Angeles police say they are “concerned that there may be other victims in our community who may have been drugged by one or more of these men.”
The district attorney’s office has yet to press charges in connection with the deaths of the two women.
Before Dawn On the day Giles and Arzola were dropped from the hospitals, the friends texted each other from inside Pearce’s home on Olympic Boulevard.
It was time to go home, the two women agreed. The long night had started hours earlier at a party miles away. One of them called an Uber, but none would make it to their destination.
Several hours later, a group of masked men in a Toyota Prius without plaque left Giles at the Southern California Hospital in Culver City.
She was unconscious at the time and was soon pronounced dead.
Shortly after, Arzola was abandoned at another hospital, Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles.
Her body was cold, her family said, and she spent several days in critical condition and on life support.
Arzola died on 24 November after she was pronounced brain dead, her family said. It was five days before he turned 27 years.
Giles’ husband, Jan Cilliers, said by phone that he was “relieved” that arrests had been made after the sudden loss of his wife.
“But not much of a relief, I know this is just the beginning of the fight, ”he said.
The two women had forged a friendship after Arzola moved to Los Angels this year, Cilliers said.
Arzola studied architecture in Mexico and was working as a project manager before his death, according to an employment profile.
She graduated from the University of Monterrey as the best of her class in the 2019 and focused on interior design.
An LAPD source said the investigation is largely focused on Pearce and that the other two suspects were ar brought to the case for allegedly helping him drop off women in hospitals.
Detectives have not confirmed who supplied the drugs involved. The LAPD source said the women did not know the suspects prior to the night of the party.
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