MIAMI — A Miami Beach biochemist arrested in 2023 for drugging and raping women in his West Avenue condo is now headed to prison.
Records show Jeremy Bittner, 44, recently pleaded guilty to multiple counts of sexual battery and false imprisonment across cases involving three different women. He also pleaded guilty to two drug charges. Prosecutors confirmed Thursday that he was given a nine-year prison sentence with two years of house arrest and five years of probation ― and will have to register as a sex offender.
Prosecutors dropped charges, including armed sexual battery, that could have landed him in prison for life. Two other cases had been fully dropped soon after his Feb. 27, 2023 arrest.
The cases
Bittner pleaded guilty to one count each of sexual battery and false imprisonment in a case in which he was accused of inviting a woman who lived at his condominium building, The Waverly South Beach at 1330 West Ave., to his unit, drugging her and raping her.
The 47-year-old woman told investigators that she eventually was able to fight off Bittner, then 40, during the Jan. 30, 2022 attack.
In another case, in which he pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery and one count of false imprisonment, police said the New Mexico-born scientist victimized an Italian woman from Rome who had been seeking a rental in Miami Beach.
Investigators said he agreed to rent her a room for $1,500 per month. According to an arrest report from the Miami Beach Police Department, Bittner sexually assaulted the 25-year-old the day she arrived in South Florida: Oct. 29, 2022.
She told police that after Bittner, then 41, picked her up from Miami International Airport and the two got to his apartment, she saw what she believed to be “cocaine, ketamine and meth” on a living room table.
She said he became “violent” after ingesting what she believed to be the cocaine, then raped her twice, despite her pleas for him to stop.
In a third case stemming from Feb. 4, 2023, another woman living at The Waverly had accused Bittner of attacking her, too.
In that case, the 34-year-old told MBPD detectives that Bittner had invited her to his unit for drinks, offered her cocaine and became “irritated” and threw a bag of a “white powdery substance” at her when she declined, an arrest report states.
She told police that after having a sip of vodka, she began to feel “extremely relaxed.” The report states that she told detectives that “upon observing she had not consumed the entirety of the shot,” Bittner “forcefully poured” the rest of it into her mouth.
According to the report, the next thing the woman remembered was waking up to Bittner “gripp(ing) her neck with extreme force.” Police said she was ultimately able to fight him off.
Afterward, police said Bittner texted the woman photos of her sleeping on his sofa and “apologized” for his actions, telling her he “aimed to please.” The woman told police she also discovered a video on her cellphone of her confronting Bittner, who told the victim she “wanted to be drugged.”
That victim told Local 10 News reporter Glenna Milberg after Bittner’s arrest that she and other victims of Bittner had come together in a WhatsApp group chat. She said he would regularly harass her and other women and targeted women seeking modeling gigs, urging women networking for photoshoots and jobs to come over to his place.
“He started shoving substances at us without necessarily knowing what they were and when we said no, (he) pretty much told us we were ungrateful whores,” she said in March 2023.
In her case, Bittner pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery; prosecutors dropped a sexual battery charge.
Accusers in the two eventually dropped cases also spoke to Local 10 News as well. One said she came forward after seeing Bittner’s arrest on the news.
What’s next
As of Thursday morning, Bittner remained in the custody of Miami-Dade County and was being held at the Metrowest Detention Center.
Records don’t indicate when he’ll be transferred into state custody or where he will serve his sentence.
According to court records, he’ll receive credit for the more than three years he’s spent in the county jail.
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