POLICE HOLD SUSPECT IN RAPE ATTACK; MAN ARRESTED IN MOJAVE HOTEL.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer A U.S. Borax borax or sodium tetraborate decahydrate (sō`dēəm tĕ'trəbôr`āt dĕk'əhī`drāt), chemical compound, Na2B4O7·10H2O; sp. gr. 1. subcontractor has been arrested in the kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. and rape of a 20-year-old gas station worker, sheriff's officials said. David Adams David Adams may refer to:
``We believe that he had been stalking her,'' said John White, the woman's boss, who called 911 and organized a search party Saturday night after the gas station was found unattended. ``I think he had planned this out.'' Kern County Sheriff's Department deputies are investigating whether Adams was responsible for a Dec. 21 attempted kidnapping at the Albertson's parking lot in Rosamond. A man tried to force a girl into his car - which fit the description of the one used by the gas station attendant's abductor ab·duc·tor n. A muscle that draws a body part, such as a finger, arm, or toe, away from the midline of the body or of an extremity. abductor that which abducts. - but she broke free and escaped, deputies said. Adams also had been arrested Nov. 21 in Rosamond on suspicion of spousal rape spousal rape Forensic medicine Rape by a husband or common law partner, a violent crime and a component of battered wife syndrome. See Assault, Date rape, Domestic violence, Rape. , deputies said. He was released after the Kern County District Attorney's Office dropped charges, citing lack of evidence, deputies said. Deputies said that Adams had lived in Rosamond for four years before taking up residence Dec. 1 at the Mojave motel. The gas station attendant 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 at knifepoint knife·point n. The sharp end of a knife. Idiom: at knifepoint Under threat of being stabbed or cut with a knife: was mugged at knifepoint. about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, officials said. She had posted a ``Back in five minutes'' sign on the door when she went outside to clean bathrooms in preparation for closing for the night. She was bound, her eyes and mouth taped shut, then thrown into a car trunk and driven into the desert and raped, officials said. Her abductor drove her to a motel, assaulted her again in a room there, and then dropped her off at a Denny's restaurant in Mojave, about seven hours after she was kidnapped, deputies said. The woman notified restaurant workers, who called authorities. ``His selection of victim and the way she had been taken tells us that he had been out looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. somebody,'' said Sgt. Mike Lackey of the Mojave sheriff's station. ``He had some plan and had his equipment ready.'' White, who owns White's Shell Station and Mini Mart and whose brother owns the adjoining White's Motel, said more than 30 friends, family and co-workers searched the town and surrounding desert for hours seeking the missing woman. A helicopter and an airplane also joined in the search. They were still searching when she was released at the restaurant. ``We didn't know what we were looking for,'' said White. ``We just know we had to search. We were looking for anything that looked suspicious.'' |
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