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Guo faces more charges; bail at $1M

Police: Additional victims report sexual abuse by Philly man

A 22-year-old man arrested last month on charges he had sex with two 13-year-old girls now faces additional charges in connection to two more underage girls as well as alleged prostitution and drug dealing.

Jeffrey Guo, who has a Philadelphia address but charges indicate had been a Penn State Altoona student until last year, was arrested Feb. 13 after he showed up at the home of a 13-year-old girl he later allegedly admitted to having sex with at a local motel, along with a second 13-year-old girl. Police said Guo met the girls on Snapchat and claimed he was 16, although when Guo talked to investigators after his arrest he claimed he told them he was 18 and a freshman at Penn State Altoona.

Guo was jailed on rape and related charges but that case has been withdrawn, and police on Saturday filed new charges that include the allegations involving the first two alleged victims as well as two additional girls — a third 13-year-old and a 15-year-old.

Police allege Guo forced the third 13-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him after he groped her and tried to get her to have sex with him. Guo allegedly told the girl he was 15 and almost 16 and the alleged sexual assault happened when he met her at her house so the two could smoke marijuana together, police noted in the charges.

He later sent her a photo of his penis, police noted.

The fourth alleged victim came to light on Feb. 25 when Altoona police received a call from a mother who reported that her daughter had just told her she was raped by Guo in March 2018.

The girl was 15 years old at the time, and when she spoke to investigators, she explained how she met Guo on Snapchat in October 2017.

The girl told police he invited her to the apartment he had at the time in Juniata and paid for Uber to pick her up and take her home. He allegedly gave her THC wax to smoke through a vape pen and also provided her with cocaine. She said he tried to “cuddle” with her but she declined his advances.

Police noted the girl said Guo told her he was 19 and she had told him she was 15.

The girl said they met up again at his apartment in December 2017 and again, Guo gave her cocaine and tried to “cuddle” with her but she stopped him. The scenario repeated itself in February, the girl said. She said Guo sent her home with cocaine on that visit, and when they met up again that month, they drank alcohol and did more cocaine together. Guo again tried to make sexual advances, but she turned him down, police said.

It was on the next visit, March 18, 2018, that Guo allegedly raped the girl after they smoked some marijuana. Guo allegedly ignored the girl when she kept telling him, “I don’t want to do this,” and he offered her a quarter-pound of marijuana if she had sex with him and “enjoyed it,” according to the charges.

If she didn’t, she would only get an ounce of pot and “make it bad for herself,” the girl told police. Guo then took off the girl’s clothes and raped her while saying things such as, “I’m not raping you. If I was, you could go to the police right after,” police wrote in the charges.

“You do realize you’re not getting out of this,” he allegedly told the girl during the rape. Police said the girl was scared that if she made too much noise, someone would call the police and she would get in trouble because he had a large amount of marijuana sitting out in the apartment. She said that before and after the assault, Guo was on the phone making drug deals.

Police said after the assault, Guo gave the girl an ounce of marijuana and called her an Uber, telling her, “Remember, I have your address. I know where you live and where your family sleeps.”

Guo allegedly spent weeks at a time at the house of three female Penn State Altoona students he had met while they were all students at the campus, police noted. He allegedly sold cocaine, MDMA and marijuana out of the house, supplied drugs for parties there and at another student’s house and had one of the women selling marijuana for him.

Another of the women told police he tried to get her to prostitute herself for him and he bragged he ran an “escort” business.

The three female Penn State Altoona students all told police about one of the women he allegedly had working for him, someone police said they referred to as “The Worker” or “The Employee.”

Police identified the woman when they spoke to her, and she allegedly admitted she worked for him as a prostitute several times in February and each time he would rent a motel room and advertise her on a website. She told police she had sex with seven or eight men the first night, on Feb. 9, and about the same number of men the second night. The last night she worked was Feb. 13 — the same day as Guo’s arrest — when she had sex with four men.

The woman told police Guo charged customers $100 for 15 minutes, $160 for 30 minutes and $200 per hour. Guo would rent the room and then sit in the parking lot and text her instructions as to when to start and end each encounter with a customer, she told police. She would then turn over the money from each customer and Guo would give her a portion of it, police said.

She said they were supposed to split the money evenly but she only got $1,000 for the roughly 20 to 22 encounters.

She told police Guo used a certain website to create profiles for prostitutes and make the arrangements before telling the escorts working for him where and when to meet the customer. She claimed he had escorts traveling to locations in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York.

She said on Feb. 13, she fell asleep at the motel and when she woke up, Guo had taken a car she had borrowed from a friend. Police said the owner of the Honda CRV eventually reported it stolen. It was the same vehicle that Guo used to drive to the home of one of the 13-year-old girls.

Police indicated Guo drove the vehicle to the girl’s house on Feb. 13 after chatting with her. But unbeknownst to him, he was actually chatting with one of her parents.

When the girl’s parent confronted him at the home at just before 5 p.m., the parent took his keys and called police. Responding officers came across Guo walking nearby, and although he allegedly tried to ditch his cellphone and a box containing cocaine, MDMA and other drug paraphernalia in a nearby yard, officers were able to recover the items and link them to Guo through video surveillance footage, police said.

Guo now faces 41 felony counts that include rape, kidnapping, dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, corrupt organizations, criminal solicitation, promoting prostitution and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. He is also charged with 13 misdemeanors, including promoting indecent exposure and indecent assault.

Magisterial District Judge Fred Miller set bail Saturday for Guo at $1 million cash. He remains in Blair County Prison and is slated to appear at Central Court on March 13 for his preliminary hearing.

Mirror Staff Writer Greg Bock is at 946-7458.

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