On September 23, 2015, Fremont Police Detectives, with the assistance of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Police Department, arrested Kwangmin Jin (21 years old/San Ramon resident) in Champaign, Illinois, for a warrant stemming from a sexual assault investigation.
During the investigation, Fremont detectives learned that between May - August 2015, Jin used fake aliases to arrange meetings with female victims over social media sites. Once in person, Jin would give the victims an alcoholic beverage tainted with Xanax. The victims were rendered unconscious for several hours, during which time Jin would rape them.
In all, seven victims were identified throughout the Bay Area. There is a possibility there are additional victims who came in contact with Jin that may have little knowledge of the events that transpired due to being sedated. Jin contacted victims using social media meet-up sites such as Tinder, Mocospace, Skout, and Facebook using the aliases of: Kevin Park, Kevin Jin, Jeremy Lee and Kevin Lee.
Jin was subsequently extradited back to Fremont where he faced 21 separate counts of raping a victim who was intoxicated and transportation of a controlled substance. On August 4, 2016, Jin was brought to the Hayward Hall of Justice where he plead “no contest” to 6 counts of rape while intoxicated and agreed to serve a 20 year sentence as part of a plea bargain.
The Fremont Police Department would like to thank the University of Illinois-Police Department, the Internet Crimes Against Children- Silicon Valley Task Force; and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Vertical Sexual Assault Unit for their assistance in this investigation.
If anyone has additional information that could help with this investigation, you are asked to please call the Fremont Police Investigative Unit at 510-790-6900.
