MIAMI — A Miami Beach biochemist arrested in 2023 for drugging and raping women in his West Avenue condo is now headed to prison.
Records show Jeremy Bittner, 44, recently pleaded guilty to multiple counts of sexual battery and false imprisonment across cases involving three different women. He also pleaded guilty to two drug charges. Prosecutors confirmed Thursday that he was given a nine-year prison sentence with two years of house arrest and five years of probation ― and will have to register as a sex offender.
Prosecutors dropped charges, including armed sexual battery, that could have landed him in prison for life. Two other cases had been fully dropped soon after his Feb. 27, 2023 arrest.
The cases
Bittner pleaded guilty to one count each of sexual battery and false imprisonment in a case in which he was accused of inviting a woman who lived at his condominium building, The Waverly South Beach at 1330 West Ave., to his unit, drugging her and raping her…