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CUPERTINO — A 35-year-old Cupertino man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of stalking and annoying four young girls, a number the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said represents only a fraction of the total number of known victims.

Altogether, Rajeev Sanhi is suspected of targeting 19 preteens and teens over the past couple of years, said Sheriff Laurie Smith.

“As a sheriff, a mother and a woman,” Smith said, “I am completely outraged and disgusted that a grown man would prey on the most vulnerable and innocent in our community.”

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San Jose: Club promoter arrested on suspicion of sexual assault The Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation after a 14-year-old girl filed a report with the West Valley Patrol Office alleging that a man, later identified as Sanhi, had approached her on multiple occasions offering gifts of money, tickets and other items.

Sanhi also followed the girl home more than a dozen times, and he continued to follow and harass her even after being confronted by a relative of the girl, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

By late February, detectives had linked Sanhi to similar incidents in San Jose, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Los Altos and the Los Angeles area. Lt. James Jensen said Sanhi often handed out business cards advertising his website, which offers Jesus and relationship “makeovers.”

Sanhi was arrested after detectives with the sheriff’s Sexual Assault Investigation Unit, the county’s Sexual Felony Assault Enforcement Task Force and the Los Altos Police Department served a search warrant at his home. Collages of the girls and gifts for them, including a personalized license plate and a stuffed giraffe, were recovered, Jensen said.

Sanhi was booked at the Main Jail in San Jose on four felony counts of stalking and one misdemeanor count of annoying a minor.

The Sheriff’s Office has yet to uncover any evidence that Sanhi sexually assaulted any of the girls.

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“But we’ve got a big investigation to continue to do,” Smith said. “We want to get his photograph out. We want people to call us. He’s 35 years old. Who knows how long he’s been doing this?”

Sanhi tried to volunteer as a youth mentor or pastor at several churches in the South Bay and was asked not to return because of his behavior around young girls, Jensen said.

In addition, Sanhi applied to be a nanny and a teacher, but it appears as though he was never hired.

Smith noted with some satisfaction the circumstances of Sanhi’s arrest, which coincided with International Women’s Day.

“And I find it more fitting that on International Women’s Day, the lead detective on this case was a female,” Smith said. “A strong, intelligent law enforcement woman who protected future women from a community predator and potentially saved new girls from becoming victims or those who had interactions from further victimization.”

Anyone with information about Sanhi can contact the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Detective Bureau at 408-808-4500.