A 22-year-old man who is believed to be a serial rapist in the Denver metro area is in custody and police have concerns that he may have committed crimes they don’t know about. Jerricho Joseph Esquivel is from Thornton and is facing numerous charges in relation to two separate investigations from two years ago. In both cases the suspect was said to have had a gun.
The first crime was reported in 2022 in Adams County. It happened on Oct. 22 near the intersection of Acoma Way and Acoma Street. That’s just outside the Thornton city limits. The other was reported a month later in Aurora on the 15400 block of East 13th Avenue. That attack allegedly happened on Nov. 21, 2022.
Investigators say both rapes were random. They say the suspect didn’t know the victims.
“Given similarities of the two cases, investigators are concerned there could be more victims who either never reported they were assaulted or were attacked in another metro Denver city and reported the crime to their local police department,” Aurora police wrote in a news release .