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A USC graduate student who has used drugs to rape and assault multiple women is accused of being a serial sexual predator, and authorities are looking for additional victims, Los Angeles Police Department officials announced Wednesday.
Sizhe Weng, 30, is being held without bail after being arrested and charged with eight felony counts involving drug-facilitated sexual assaults of young women he met since beginning his graduate studies in 2021.
LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton said at a news conference that the department began investigating Weng in January after German authorities reached out pertaining a similar investigation in Europe involving a Chinese national who they learned