Posted on 04/20/2012 10:57:00 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
ELIZABETH, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Authorities have arrested a New Jersey man accused of targeting couples headed to motels and forcing them to have sex before sexually assaulting the female victim himself.
Union County prosecutors said Rasheed Powell, 36, targeted couples at motels in Linden and Elizabeth on weekend nights over a period of six-weeks.
Powell would force his way into the room at gunpoint where he would force the couple to engage in sexual acts and then order the male into a bathroom before sexually assaulting the female victim, according to First Assistant Prosecutor Albert Cernadas, Jr.
The assaults took place at the Swan Motel and Benedict Motel in Linden as well as the Spring Lane Motel and the Royal Motel in Elizabeth, Cernadas Jr. said.
Powell has been charged with:
10 counts of 1st degree aggravated sexual assault
10 counts of 1st degree aggravated sexual assault
2 counts of 1st degree attempted aggravated sexual assault
12 counts of 1st degree robbery
6 counts of 2nd degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose
Investigators said they knew of at least six occasions, including two attacks last week, when the incidents happened.
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I’ll bet he looks like the son that Obama never had.
I’ll bet he looks like the son that Obama never had
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You can bet on it. With the first name of Rasheed..... I guarantee it.
Yeah, the efficient cops were so efficient that this animal was able to efficiently victimize innocent people time and time again using the exact same efficient techniques in an efficiently small area.
Can’t be! No such thing as black-on-white crime in THIS country, no sir!
I bet motel customers were ‘compromised’ to begin with and the rapist was banking on them NOT going to police.
More helpless victims of ridiculous gun laws.
Damn; as ugly as that dude is, this is probably the only way he can get any.
Yeah; that’s what I was thinking. The cops were so efficient, home boy did this for six weeks at just two different motels. And, they couldn’t catch him?
Remember the old Mr. Potato Head??? This dude looks like Mr. Potato Head; for real.
I bet motel customers were ‘compromised’ to begin with and the rapist was banking on them NOT going to police.
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I was thinking the same thing at first, but “10 Counts”???? I’m thinking they all filed a Police Report. But, if the couples were not in a “compromised” situation to begin with, can you imagine how the male victim must have felt being in the bathroom knowing that beast was out there pounding his wife or girlfriend? I, sincerely, cannot imagine what might have been going through his mind.
The only way you are going to get me separarted from my wife in a situation like this is to drag my dead body into the other room.
I think those little wedge alarms that slide under the door of a motel room would go a long way in keeping these types of things from happening. They’re about five dollars in those gift catalogs.
Sloppy seconds fetish....strange
Wonder if he used a condom?
No way to tell if he was “stalking” or “profiling” or “targeting” white couples. My guess is he went after a mix. And that some of the girls were prostitutes or having an affair so the man sure isn’t’ going to tell the police
“I bet motel customers were ‘compromised’ to begin with and the rapist was banking on them NOT going to police.”
Yeah cheating on wife or hubby or with a ho
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