Overview

• Vazquez, 25, is in custody after deputies connected assaults from January through June 2025 across Thornton, Isleton, Elk Grove, Stockton and Sacramento.
• Sheriff Patrick Withrow says Vazquez confessed to multiple attacks and disclosed two unreported assaults on homeless women in Lodi and near the University of the Pacific.
• Detectives say victim DNA, surveillance footage and multi-county cameras led to a license plate that tied a vehicle to Vazquez.
• He was already held in the Sacramento County jail on a shotgun-discharge arrest, and Sacramento police added a massage-therapist assault charge on July 4.
• San Joaquin District Attorney Ron Freitas plans to seek trial in his county, says at least 10 counts will be filed, urges additional victims to come forward and notes the evidence could support a life sentence.