Crime & Safety

Huntington Beach Taxi-Driver Rapist Receives 8 Years in Prison

An Anaheim taxi driver who raped a 36-year-old woman outside of her HB apartment complex in 2014 received 8 years in prison on June 6.

Huntington Beach, CA--A 59-year-old taxi driver from Anaheim pleaded guilty today to raping a customer and was immediately sentenced to eight years in prison.

Samy Gayed Hakim was accused by prosecutors last year of picking up a 36-year-old woman early Nov. 18, 2014, at a Huntington Beach bar to take her home.

The victim was raped in the vehicle outside her apartment complex while she was under the influence of alcohol, Roxi Fyad of the Orange County District Attorney's Office said at the time.

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Hakim pleaded guilty to rape. Additional charges of rape by use of drugs, sexual penetration by using an intoxicating substance on a victim and sexual penetration by a foreign object were dismissed, according to court records.

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