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BC attack suspect connected to previous assaults in Northeast Bakersfield

Posted at 11:12 AM, May 12, 2017
and last updated 2017-05-13 02:30:20-04

UPDATE (May 12, 2017 3:26 p.m.): Police have collected DNA evidence in this case to further the investigation.

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UPDATE (May 12, 2017 2:58 p.m.): Brandon Robinson pleaded no contest to trespassing on private property in September 2016 and was sentenced in March 2017.

Robinson was in court Friday for an unrelated misdemeanor charge. He is expected to be arraigned on Monday.

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UPDATE: (12:04 p.m.): Robinson attended and played football and basketball at Centennial High School. A representative with the school's athletic department did not want to comment on the matter.

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UPDATE (11:30 a.m.): BPD has identified the person accused of multiple sexual assaults as 19-year-old Brandon Robinson. 

BPD says the teen committed the sexual assault at Bakersfield College, kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old in April and also sexually assaulted a woman in March. 

Robinson now faces 13 felonies. He's set to be in court on Monday afternoon. 

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Bakersfield Police have confirmed that the person who sexually assaulted a woman at Bakersfield College on Thursday is likely the same person who attacked a girl in April.

In April, BPD investigated a sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl. The suspect was on the loose. 

On Thursday, police caught a suspect in the middle of a sexual assault in a women's restroom on the campus of Bakersfield College. 

This morning police say that person, who they have not identified, is the same person who committed the sexual assault in April.