Truckee man accused of rape

James Russell Ferrigno

A Truckee man was arrested Oct. 19 on rape charges.

According to police officers, James Russell Ferrigno, 31, spiked a woman’s drink and then raped her.

She was renting a room from Ferrigno. She told police she suspected Ferrigno of putting a substance in her drink at night, which led her to set up a camera in the kitchen.

Ferrigno faces charges of rape of a drugged victim, rape of an unconscious victim, oral copulation of an unconscious victim, sodomy of a drugged victim and willfully poisoning food.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report