SANTA MONICA—According to the Santa Monica Police Department, Michael Hsu, 24, was taken into custody on charges of intent to commit rape and drugging with the intent to commit a rape. Sonia Ulrich and her two friends received tons of praise from people in their efforts to prevent a date rape at a Santa Monica restaurant.

Ulrich posted on her Facebook page on Friday, May 27 that she and her two female friends were at Fig, a restaurant inside the Fairmont Hotel off of Ocean Avenue. At the restaurant, the female trio noticed a man put something in another woman’s drink once she left her drink to go to the restroom. According to Ulrich, they all thought the man was on a date with the woman.

Ulrich wrote on Facebook, “After a few ‘Oh God. What do we do’s,’ I got up to find her in the bathroom to tell her. Warn her. Tell her to get up and leave this creep. Make him drink it. Something.” She further stated that, “So, after feeling awkward hanging out by the skins in the bathroom till she was done, I approached. ‘Hey! Um, this is kind of weird, but, um we saw the guy you were with put something in your drink.”

They apparently followed the woman to the restroom and told her what happened. Ulrich and her friends learned that the guy was one of the woman’s “best friends.” According to Ulrich, her friend Marla Saltzer originally noticed the incident. She flagged down a waiter and told him and her friends what she saw.

‘“He pulled her glass toward him, kind of awkwardly, then he took out a little black vial. He opened it up and dropped something in. Then he tried to play it cool, like checking his phone and hiding the vial in his hand and then trying to bring it back down slyly,’” Ulrich recalled Saltzer saying.

The women were able to get the man arrested with the help of the restaurant’s management staff. The staff used the CCTV footage which proved that he spiked his friend’s drink. Ulrich also mentioned that other customers thanked them for their deed and shared personal stories of almost being sexually assaulted.

Hsu was arrested on May 26 on felony charges. His bail was set at $1 million. According to police, the case is expected to be presented on May 31 to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.