A Redwood City, CA man who pled not guilty to rape in the Bay Area will be going to trial later in the spring. He faces 26 counts after allegedly raping two victims and attempting to rape another.
Raul Gutierrez Contreras, 30, pleaded not guilty to the charges and was appointed an attorney through the county's private defender program, Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
He was arrested in February 2007 for driving under the influence but also had a warrant out for his arrest in connection with an attack a woman reported about a week earlier.
After Contreras was arrested, he was linked to two other rape incidents over the course of 2006, and charged with 26 felony counts including rape, burglary, false imprisonment, sexual battery and felony threats. One incident was near the Colma Bay Area Rapid Transit station and another in South San Francisco, Wagstaffe said.
The initial warrant came from a citizen's tip that a coworker, Contreras, fit the description of the suspect in the February 2007 attack and that he worked at an auto body shop.
Jury selection begins May 19.
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