Felony charges are expected to be filed Wednesday against a 20-year-old man suspected of sexually assaulting two girls in Lake Elsinore.
Emilio Esteban Ronquillo of Riverside was arrested and booked into the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on Friday on suspicion sexual penetration of a minor, oral copulation of a child, unlawful intercourse with a minor and committing a felony while on bail.
Ronquillo is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.
The case is under review by the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.
According to Sgt. Robert Thomas of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, in December, deputies at the sheriff’s Lake Elsinore station received reports of a sexual assault on a runaway girl, whose identity was not disclosed.
The investigation resulted in allegations that Ronquillo had facilitated the victim’s flight and “harbored the juvenile for two days before returning the victim home,” Thomas said.
He said deputies arrested the suspect for his alleged assault on the teenager, but Ronquillo was able to post bond and was released from custody around the start of the year.
“In January, another juvenile victim came forward and disclosed (she was) a victim of sexual assault by Ronquillo,” the sergeant said.
No details were released concerning how the suspect had come into contact with the second girl, also not identified.
The ensuing investigation culminated in his arrest last week in the city of Hemet.
Background information on Ronquillo was unavailable.