Walnut Creek bartender sentenced to prison in serial rape case

MARTINEZ — A bartender pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting six women from 2018 to 2023, as part of a plea deal that dismissed corresponding rape charges against him.

Brandon Delliquadri, 37, is now at North Kern State Prison serving what’s left of an eight-year prison term, court records show. As part of a plea deal with Contra Costa prosecutors, Delliquadri accepted one felony assault and one misdemeanor sexual battery conviction for each of the six victims, and rape charges against him were dismissed, court records show.

Delliquadri was transferred to state prison on March 27, records show.

Delliquadri had also been accused of sexually assaulting a seventh woman, who died of a drug overdose roughly 11 months later, but that allegation wasn’t part of the deal. He received credit for roughly three years and four months of time served toward his sentence, based on his stay at the county jail while the case was pending, court records show.

Prosecutors charged Delliquadri in 2023, but court records revealed that women had been accusing him of rape and sexual assault for the prior five years. He had worked as a bartender and bouncer around the Bay Area. Some of the victims Delliquadri met through his job, while one had ended a consensual relationship with him months earlier, when he showed up unannounced to her home and sexually assaulted her, police said at the time.

In 2023, a Walnut Creek police detective linked the various sexual assault reports, some from San Francisco, others from Walnut Creek, and brought a case to the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office. He was first charged with sexually assaulting four women, but after news reports of his arrest, three more women came forward, court records show.

Prison records say Delliquadri is scheduled to be released in July 2026. He will be required to register as a sex offender as part of the plea deal.