Zaid Albeetar, 26, was charged with intent to commit a sex crime, sexual battery by restraint and other feSunday?
UC Berkeley police detectives say they have tracked down a man who attacked a Cal student and tried to sexually assault her after she rejected him at a bar near campus this month.
Detectives from the University of California Police Department solved the case with the help of surveillance footage, witness statements and vehicle registration records, according to court papers.
According to court records, Albeetar first approached the young women outside Kip's Bar, at 2439 Durant Ave., shortly after midnight on Sunday, Feb. 4. They had never met him before.
The man put his arm around one of the women but she rejected his advances, according to police.
The women left the area but Albeetar followed them through the Southside neighborhood near campus, according to UCPD.
He caught up with them on a path near the Tang Center, at 2222 Bancroft Way, police wrote.
On Friday afternoon, Piedmont police pulled Albeetar over and arrested him outside the Grand Lake Ace Hardware.
In his statement to police, UCPD wrote, Albeetar denied intending to rape the young woman or digitally penetrate her.
But he did identify himself in surveillance footage and admitted he had followed the women from the bar, according to UCPD.
He said he had attacked them and grabbed one of their breasts "because he was angry" about being rejected at Kip's, UCPD wrote.
Looks like they have a history of behavior like this