Authorities Wednesday were searching for a 42-year-old man who failed to appear in court this week on charges of sexually assaulting two teenage girls.
A warrant was issued for the arrest of Luis Martinez Ramirez on Tuesday when he failed to show for a pretrial hearing in the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana, according to court records.
Ramirez is charged with rape by use of drugs, administering a drug, two counts of lewd acts on a child 14 or 15 years old and two counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor younger than 14, all felonies.
Ramirez is accused of molesting one of the girls in Santa Ana when she was 13 years old two to three times a month in 2013, police testified in the defendant’s preliminary hearing. The defendant was related to the girl, according to the testimony.
The other victim knew the defendant through her mother and sneaked out of the house one night in July 2021 to meet with Ramirez at Trabuco Canyon and Trabuco Creek Road, according to the police testimony at his preliminary hearing. Ramirez was accused of feeding seven to eight shots of tequila to the teen and sexually assaulting her, police testified.