Suspect IDs Himself as Police, Rapes Woman in Torrance, Captured in Monterey County

Originally posted at 1:32 p.m. Aug. 29, 2014. Edited with new details.

Police today arrested a convicted sex offender who allegedly impersonated an undercover police officer and raped a woman in Torrance before fleeing to Monterey County.

Guy Dietz, 43, was arrested about 4:30 p.m. in Soledad, according to Torrance police Sgt. Paul Kranke.

About 3:45 p.m. Thursday, officers responded to a call of a rape that had just occurred, he said.

“Officers contacted a female who indicated she met the suspect, Guy Dietz, at a residence in Torrance,” Kranke said. “Dietz falsely identified himself as an undercover police officer, and proceeded to forcibly rape the victim.”

Authorities began looking for Dietz, and about midnight, the California Highway Patrol “located and attempted to stop Dietz’s vehicle near King City, California,” Kranke said.

“Dietz led CHP (officers) and Monterey County sheriff’s deputies on a pursuit into the city of Soledad ... where he ran out of his vehicle,” Kranke said.

He was later spotted walking down a street and arrested, police said.

--City News Service

PHOTO Courtesy Torrance Police Department.