BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT
Daily Post Staff Writer
A barber who allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted more than 20 men was a regular at the Monte Carlo Night Club, where Mountain View police found surveillance video showing that he worked with others to spike drinks, according to the police report.
Franklin Enrique Sarceno Orla, 34, was well-known by nightclub employees because he was accused of drugging another man in 2018, Officer Melanie Gyorfi said in her police report.
Sarceno Orla is currently on the run after skipping his court date on Oct. 29, court records show.
One of Sarceno Orla’s alleged rape victims met a woman at a bar in San Jose in mid-July and made plans with her to go to Monte Carlo at 228 Castro St. on July 27, police said. At the club, the man noticed the woman and her friends were “acting weird,” police said.
The group included Sarceno Orla, who went by “Frank,” police said.
The woman and her friends covered their faces when the man tried to take pictures, and they asked a lot of questions about how much money he made, police said.
The woman told the man that she wasn’t romantically interested in him and left him alone with her group around 1 a.m., police said.
That’s when Sarceno Orla started offering the man drinks, police said.
The man woke up the next day with bruises and pain in an apartment at 222 Escuela Ave., where Sarceno Orla also cuts hair, police said.
“The victim was extremely confused and had no memory of how he got to that location,” Gyorfi wrote in her police report.
Gyorfi reviewed surveillance footage from the club and saw Sarceno Orla hand another man a white substance that the man then poured into a drink at 1:26 a.m.
Sarceno Orla traded drinks with his alleged victim and encouraged him to take the drink containing the substance, police said.
Twenty minutes later, the victim was seen stumbling out of the club with Sarceno Orla holding him up, police said.
Kaiser nurses tested the victim, who is heterosexual, and found evidence that he was sexually assaulted, police said.
Sarceno Orla was arrested on Aug. 28 and posted bail that was set at $250,000.
Mountain View police didn’t announce the arrest at the time.
Further investigation showed that Sarceno Orla may have assaulted approximately 20 different men dating back to 2018 or before, Deputy District Attorney Christopher Paynter said on Tuesday.