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Police: Actor Accused of Hollywood Date Rape May Have More Victims

LAPD announces search for more possible victims of actor arrested last year in alleged sexual assaults.

Investigators are seeking more possible victims of an actor who was arrested last year for allegedly sexually assaulting at least two women after taking them out on dates in the Hollywood area.

Robert Aaron Stephens, 33, was arrested in February 2011 and charged with crimes including forcible rape, rape by use of drugs, sodomy by use of force and attempted forcible oral copulation, said Shiara Davila-Morales of the District Attorney's Office.

A pre-trial conference is scheduled for Thursday in Department 126 of the downtown Los Angeles courthouse, Davila-Morales said.

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According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the crimes occurred between May 2009 and October 2010.

"Stephens is suspected of sexually assaulting women at his residence after taking them out to various social functions and events in Hollywood," the LAPD said in a statement.

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"His method has been to get them intoxicated and then take advantage of them," police said. "Stephens is an actor who had frequented various Hollywood night spots during that time period."

According to the Internet Movie Database, Stephens appeared in the 2007 television miniseries Tin Man and in the 2007 movie The Disappearance of Jenna Matheson, which is about a woman who gets raped at a college party and disappears.

Any possible victims were urged to call LAPD Detective Roditis, 213-473-0447; or 877-LAPD-247.

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