Reynoso sentenced for sexual assault of teenager
On Monday, Judge Michael S. Lunas sentenced Trevor Reynoso, 31, of Murrieta, California, to 16 years in state prison for furnishing a controlled substance to and sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
The case was investigated by members of the Lake County Sheriff's Department, including Detective Jeff Mora and Deputy David Pike. Reynoso was prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Richard Watson and was represented by defense attorney Thomas Feimer.
Reynoso pled guilty on April 20, 2022, to furnishing a controlled substance to a minor, oral copulation with a minor, and five counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor.
The investigation revealed that in October 2020 Reynoso targeted a group of teenage girls on Snapchat while pretending to be a 21-year-old male. Reynoso offered to sell or provide the minors drugs and would meet the victim at Hardester's parking lot in Hidden Valley Lake for the exchange. In January 2021 Reynoso began taking the minor victim to his residence near Hidden Valley Lake to hang out and do drugs. Reynoso sexually assaulted the minor victim on several occasions from February 2021 through June 10, 2021, while the minor was under the influence of drugs. On June 15, 2021, the Lake County Sheriff's department worked with the minor to contact Reynoso through Snapchat and set a time for him to meet her in the Hardester's parking lot to provide drugs and take her to his residence. Reynoso arrived at Hardester's as planned and was confronted by Sheriff's deputies. Reynoso provided a false ID to the deputies and was taken into custody.
The Lake County District Attorney's Office commends the victim for their courage in coming forward and participating in the investigation into the various abuses committed against them by Reynoso.
It is believed that Reynoso may have had contact with multiple other minor victims in the Middletown area between September 2020 to June 2021. Anyone with further information is encouraged to contact Lake County Sheriff's Detective Jeff Mora at 707-262-4224.