Man accused of drugging and raping woman in Laguna Beach pleads not guilty
A man pleaded not guilty Monday to allegations of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman over several days in Laguna Beach.
Maxwell Carlton Post, 28, was charged Friday with two counts each of rape, forced sodomy, forced oral copulation and sexual penetration with a foreign object. He also faces sentencing enhancement allegations of aggravated mayhem or torture and administering a controlled substance by force.
Post, who has a conviction for carjacking in San Diego in December 2015, entered his plea Monday in the Orange County Jail courtroom in Santa Ana. He was ordered held on $1 million bail and is scheduled for a pretrial hearing Dec. 24 at Orange County Superior Court in Newport Beach.
Laguna Beach police were called to a Ralphs store Dec. 9 regarding a 21-year-old woman who appeared drugged and fearful of her male companion, police Sgt. Jim Cota said.
The woman told police she met Post at a party in a Costa Mesa hotel and that the defendant took her to a vacant residence in Laguna Beach and injected her with methamphetamine and heroin, Cota said.
Post is accused of taking the woman’s belongings, including a phone and clothes, to prevent her from fleeing, Cota said.
The woman was sexually assaulted over multiple days, Cota said.
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