A 79-year-old woman was bound, gagged and raped early Saturday, allegedly by a man she employed for odd jobs around her Arleta home, police said.
The woman identified her attacker as Johnny Aguilar Irias, said Officer Mike Lopez of the Los Angeles Police Department.
The victim told police that she surprised an intruder about 3 a.m. after hearing a noise in the back of her residence in the 10000 block of Stanwin Avenue.
