A 24-year-old Lyft driver is being held in jail without bail on Wednesday after allegedly raping a female passenger.

Fremont police say they are going public with this case because they are concerned there could be other victims out there.

According to police, this all started in Oakland in the early morning hours of Apr. 8 when the female victim ordered a Lyft trying to catch up with friends.

She got into this rented white Hyundai Elantra and asked her driver to take her to Berkeley. When that friend wasn’t home, police say that Lyft driver, identified as Jaswanthreddy Baireddy, told her he was off duty and offered to take her home.

Police say instead, he took her to his residence on the 38000 block of Camden Street in Fremont.

There, he talked her inside, offered her marijuana, and told her he was too tired to drive her back and suggested she lay down. That’s when police say he sexually assaulted her.

After the alleged assault, she demanded he take her home.

After she was in her own home, she called the police, which Fremont Det. Curtis Tang says was the right thing to do.

“Doing those proactive steps to preserve evidence, also to be able to get her story out as quickly as possible,” Det. Tang said. “Often times people might lose some of their memory or forget certain instances. This victim was very proactive as a survivor in terms of doing what she needed to do to which to get justice, which is calling the police and then seeking medical attention for herself.”

Baireddy has been charged with three counts of sexual assault including rape of an unconscious person.

Fremont police fear there could be other victims out there.

“Mr. Baireddy…the suspect had access to the entire Bay Area if you think about it,” Det. Tang said. “He’s a Lyft driver. He’s traveling around East Bay, South Bay, North Bay. The reason for us releasing this information to see if there are possibly any other victims that we might be able to advocate for or assist who had similar incidents with this individual.”

Baireddy, who has no previous criminal history, entered a plea of not guilty.

He’s being held without bail and is back in court May 22 for a preliminary hearing.

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