73-Year-Old Sentenced for Harassing Women in Grantville Shopping Center Parking Lot

A 73-calendar year-old male who harassed a number of women of all ages at a Grantville procuring heart around the class of numerous many years was sentenced to one year of probation and requested to endure remedy, the San Diego Metropolis Attorney’s Place of work introduced Wednesday.

On at minimum six individual instances among 2018 and 2020, Orlando Joseph Chavez approached girls in the parking large amount of a strip shopping mall on Friars Highway, then crawled beneath the women’s autos less than the guise of examining an evident fluid leak, prosecutors mentioned.

Once beneath the victims’ automobiles, he would not come out, effectively avoiding the gals from becoming in a position to leave, prosecutors stated.

According to the Town Attorney’s Workplace, 1 of the incidents transpired in the existence of an off-duty San Diego law enforcement officer. After the officer purchased him to arrive out from beneath the automobile, Chavez explained to him he was not carrying out something improper, acquired into his truck and drove absent, according to prosecutors.

On another situation, the City Attorney’s Office alleges he grabbed a female by the arm. When the woman’s supervisor came around to assist, Chavez advised them, “You ladies are so fairly and need to appear with me,” courtroom paperwork point out.

One particular female who labored at the browsing centre was approached on a few independent instances, with Chavez next the girl into her workplace and inquiring for her when she dismissed him the 3rd time. He was also investigated for allegedly stalking another girl for just about two many years and slashing the tires on her husband’s automobile.

Chavez later on pleaded responsible to a misdemeanor wrong imprisonment rely. Together with probation, he was ordered to enroll in a stalking procedure plan and to keep absent from the searching center’s parking ton.

“Stalking habits like this can lead to tragic final results. We commend the victims for reporting these incidents of harassment,” Town Attorney Mara W. Elliott reported. “We value that they trusted us to consider their issues critically and to keep this serial offender accountable for his weird and threatening perform.”

Town Information Service contributed to this report.