A 39-year-old Tustin man was sentenced this month to 14 years in state prison for sexually assaulting five women. 

The man, a car mechanic for Econo Lube and Tune, was convicted in August via jury trial of felony rape and assault with the intent to commit rape as well as multiple misdemeanor charges of sexual battery and battery.  

According to the case prosecutor, on each occasion in 2007, the mechanic lured the women, ages 18 to 60, into the service bay at his Garden Grove workplace to discuss with them the repairs needed to be performed on their vehicles.  Once in the bay, however, he assaulted them. 

Among the charges were allegations the man: sexually assaulted one woman after pushing her into an oil pan, licked and bit one woman on the ear while holding her around the waist, held one woman against a wall while pressing his body into her and fondled the breasts of yet another woman.  Two of the women reported the incidents to police and the three additional women came forward after hearing about the man’s arrest on the news.