DEPUTIES LOOKING INTO RAPE, ABDUCTION.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer A 39-year-old Palmdale woman who gave a ride to an acquaintance at a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into was abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point and raped for two hours, sheriff's officials said Friday. The woman, whose name was not released, was forced to drive to a remote area north of Lancaster, where she was assaulted, then eventually released, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, who are releasing few details. ``The woman recognized the suspect from prior business dealings in the area and agreed to give him a ride in her car,'' said Lt. Terry Lewis. ``The man overpowered o·ver·pow·er tr.v. o·ver·pow·ered, o·ver·pow·er·ing, o·ver·pow·ers 1. To overcome or vanquish by superior force; subdue. 2. To affect so strongly as to make helpless or ineffective; overwhelm. 3. the woman and forced her to drive him to a remote area of north Los Angeles County or south Rosamond area.'' The suspect was described only as a 41-year-old man. Officials said that the woman gave the man a ride near 20th Street West and Avenue K around noon Thursday. After she was assaulted, the woman made her way back to her boyfriend's home, where she contacted authorities, police said. According to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. statistics, rapes in the Antelope Valley increased 5 percent in 1996 from the previous year, rising from 117 rapes in 1995 to 123 rapes in 1996. In the first three months of 1997, there were 27 rapes reported in the Antelope Valley. |
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