Bellevue man again accused of impersonating officer, rape
A Bellevue supply with hands accused last week of impersonating a police officer to cogency a woman to have sex with him was charged Tuesday with using similar tactics to rape another woman in Redmond.
Sasidhar Vanapalli, 27, remains in jail attached $500,000 bail, charged through one count of ravishment, one count of extortion and two counts of criminal impersonation, related Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecutor’s Office.
Vanapalli was accused Tuesday of responding to an 18-year-old Mountlake Terrace woman’s Craigslist ad offering massages, said Jim Bove, Redmond Police Department spokesman.
The woman agreed to muster Vanapalli Oct. 17 at an apartment in Redmond, according to charging documents. When she arrived, Vanapalli pointed a gun at her, flashed a badge and told her she would subsist arrested for prostitution if she did not gain sex with him, according to the documents.
Vanapalli forced the woman at gunpoint to compass oral sex and then raped her, according to the documents.
The Redmond apartment was leased to a intimate of Vanapalli’s who worked with him at Microsoft, according to the documents, and a Microsoft employee told Redmond investigators that Bellevue police were investigating a similar case.
In the Bellevue predicament, Vanapalli is accused of answering a Craigslist ad for an escort, arranging to pay a 19-year-old woman towards sex at his apartment in Bellevue on Oct. 1 and at that time telling her he was a police officer who would have her arrested for unlawful sexual intercourse if she did not have sex with him beneficial to unrestricted, court documents said. He told her he could keep her out of jail if she had sex with him weekly, according to the documents.
The woman reported the assault nine days later.
Bellevue police arrested Vanapalli on Oct. 20 and found a token of office, homemade fake police identification, handcuffs and a pistol in his chamber, said Bellevue Police Department spokesman Greg Grannis.
The victims in the Bellevue and Redmond cases both identified Vanapalli in a photo montage, according to court documents.
Grannis said the woman in the Bellevue case would not visage prostitution charges.
“Rape victims should never be haunted with fear to come forward,” he said.
