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South side rape, assault suspect on the loose

09:40 PM MST on Tuesday, December 4, 2007

By Deanna Morgan, Fox 11 News

Deanna Morgan's report

Tucson Police are having a tough time solving a string of sexual assaults that happened early last month.

They say the man preys on women, rapes them then steals from their bank accounts.

You may have heard this story once before and that is okay. Pima County Sheriff’s deputies want you to hear it again. A woman was kidnapped, robbed and sexually assaulted and they have not found the man who did it.

It happened around 3 a.m. on November 7. A 24-year-old woman left the Wal-Mart on Valencia near Midvale to get something to eat. She headed down the street to Jack in the Box on Valencia near Cardinal. As she left a man ran up to her window and pointed a gun at her head.

Detective Muriel McGillicuddy says the suspect, “Told her to move over. She complied with his demands.”

He reportedly drove away with the woman in the car. Police also say the man speaks with a heavy accent and may live on the south side of town.

“The suspect took the woman to a desert area possibly somewhere around here near Valencia and Camino de Oeste,” Detective McGillicuddy explains.

He then allegedly assaulted her. Afterward he drove to two different banks along Valencia, one near Drexel and Mission and another near Old Nogales Highway and McKain.

McGillicuddy reveals the suspect also, “Took money out of her account using her debit card and kept her in the vehicle with him for a total of about three hours.”

Police say that, at one point, the man went somewhere to get cocaine. “That we don’t know, who he got it from and where he went,” McGillicuddy admits.

The suspect finally left the woman in the car alone, at which point the woman drove away.

Authorities say the victim’s bank card has been used at various stores and gas stations by another man who police say is not a suspect, but could lead them to the man who committed the assault.

Courtesy: Pima County Sheriff's Dept.

“The suspect is out there,” McGillicuddy reveals. “He’s using a weapon. We believe he’s using cocaine.”

Those three things, police say, show the man could potentially become a serial rapist if he is not stopped. Right now deputies do not have any leads. Tucson Police reported two women attacked at a car wash on November 10 on Irvington near Sixth Avenue. Deputies say it may have been the same man.

The suspect is described as being in his 20s with a medium build and an odd-shaped nose. He has brown eyes, brown hair and stands about 5’7” tall. He was last seen wearing a dark blue baseball cap with Air Force wings on it, a dark blue long-sleeve shirt and dark jeans.

If you have any information, you are urged to call 911 or 88-CRIME.

Courtesy: Pima County Sheriff's Dept.

 

Courtesy: Pima County Sheriff's Dept.

 

Courtesy: Pima County Sheriff's Dept.

Courtesy: Pima County Sheriff's Dept.

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