Man Pleads Not Guilty to Assaulting Victims Lured Through Grindr

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VISTA, Calif.—A man accused of luring male victims through a dating app and then sexually assaulting them in Escondido pleaded not guilty on Sept. 20 to kidnapping and sex-related offenses.

Tobias Bartee, 28, was arrested on Sept. 15 following reports of “four different adult males that had been lured to an apartment in the city.”