CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Clearlake Police have arrested a city resident on an arrest warrant for charges of child molestation and rape of an underage female.
Clearlake Police Det. Ryan Peterson and Det. Sgt. Nick Bennett arrested Samuel Rangel, 24 years old, at his home in Clearlake at approximately 2:13 p.m. Friday, Bennett reported.
Bennett said the Clearlake Police Department had opened the investigation in January based upon a report of possible child molestation and rape of an underage female.
Through interviews conducted by Det. Peterson and a Lake County District Attorney’s Office forensic interviewer, authorities determined the offenses had taken place over an extended period of time, Bennett said.
Rangel was taken into custody without incident on a warrant issued by a Lake County Superior Court judge for the offenses, according to Bennett.
Rangel was booked into the Lake County Jail on two counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child, oral copulation of a child and rape of a child.
His bail has been set at $275,000, according to jail records.