MARCO MAN CHARGED WITH RAPE [FR Scoop at Post 25]

Naples Daily News ^ | 6/13/2002 | Brigid O'Malley

[elcaudillo]

A 30-year-old man who investigators say sexually assaulted an 11-year-old Marco Island girl, threatening to kill her during the rape if she told anyone about the attack, was arrested Tuesday night.

Marco police arrested Hicham Rhazouani of of 1786 Dogwood Drive, Marco Island, and charged him with sexual battery of a person under 12, burglary while armed and burglary with assault or battery. He was in custody Wednesday night at the Collier County jail on $200,000 bond, sheriff's officials say.

Police say the rape happened April 9 in the 1000 block of San Marco Road. The name of the victim isn't being published because of the nature of the case.

Arrest reports give this account:

Around 2:45 a.m., the girl said Rhazouani came into her room quietly and awakened her. She said she was half asleep and Rhazouani was whispering to her.

She said she could feel a small knife, which fit into his hand, held to her throat. He'd taken it from his rear pants pocket.

Before he raped her, he asked her how old she was and if she were a virgin. When the girl told him that she'd never had sex, he said, "It won't hurt. I'll be gentle."

He then sexually assaulted her, asking her where she went to school. He kept talking to her, trying to keep her quiet and threatening her by telling her he'd come back and kill her if she told anyone about the rape.

During the police investigation that night, officers learned that a white car had been seen across the street from the house. A Collier sheriff's K-9 tracking dog had picked up a scent in that area, between the girl's house and a house across the street.

Rhazouani had been chased out of the girl's house by a man who lived in the house, but Rhazouani got away, heading toward where the white car was parked.

Police questioned the owner of the house across the street, who said she rented to two foreign exchange students, whom she described as being from Egypt. Police earlier had learned that the girl's attacker was a man with an acdcent.

Last week, police interviewed a friend of Rhazouani who said Rhazouani was often out late at night drinking and hanging out at local bars and also stayed up late on the Internet. The friend also remembered seeing police at the girls home and said Rhazouani was at his home that night.

The friend's description matched that of the one given by the girl and the man who chased the suspect. Police interviewed Rhazouani who said he was staying at the house that night, that he would help and said he was "shocked that this could happen."

On Monday, police showed a photo lineup to the girl and the man who chased her suspected attacker,. Separately, each chose Rhazouani.

On Tuesday, police interviewed Rhazouani who was read his Miranda rights but who decided to talk to investigators.

He said he couldn't have committed the crime because of his religious belief. He was then told that his photo had been picked by the victim.

He then asked to confront them and prove that he is innocent. He kept declaring his innocence and when he was told there were bodily fluids that could be used to determine if he was the attacker, he stopped talking.

Rhazouani, a citizen of Morocco, said he wanted the government to provide him with an attorney and ended the interview.

[My Favorite Headache]

Keep this post in mind....when thinking about small towns and cells...

Caller Into Fox News Won't Turn Terrorists In

[My Favorite Headache]

I actually did not visit the website to be honest because I know all about their program...I have worked with enough of them. My problem with this is that both Hicham and Rudy were scheduled to go back to the middle east on Jan 1, 2002. They have not left...and they got permanent work status. Obviously the work of the Fed's and not mine. Just my words being thrown their way about the issue. Also the fact that they have been given management status...where as interns from the UK are worked from 60-80 hrs a week and NOT rotated around the hotel as they should be.

[My Favorite Headache]

I actually did not visit the website to be honest because I know all about their program...I have worked with enough of them. My problem with this is that both Hicham and Rudy were scheduled to go back to the middle east on Jan 1, 2002. They have not left...and they got permanent work status. Obviously the work of the Fed's and not mine. Just my words being thrown their way about the issue. Also the fact that they have been given management status...where as interns from the UK are worked from 60-80 hrs a week and NOT rotated around the hotel as they should be.

[Libertina]

Better check the wider PNW for such a sale
I don't know if you heard the news, but Seattle was just chosen as the FIRST in the nation to receive an elite Coast Guard team. We have a huge port in Tacoma / Seattle for container ships. We are vulnerable and people know it. Apparently the powers that be are aware too.

[TexKat]

Caller into Fox won't turn terrorist in

I was tuned into Fox on Monday when that garbage phoned in to respond to the question of the day, which was if Americans felt safer since the government had Padilla in custody. This idiot caller responded that there were thousands of Padillas here is the U.S., just waiting for the word to destroy us. And that the time was now. He said that the America had to be destroyed and bebuild for them (the scum). He said Americans was still asleep. Imagine that!!!

[LikeLight]

MFH bump. Also, go to bed . . . it's late! (that's where I'm headed) And thanks!

[oceanperch]

Yes here is our local article.

Local Coast Guard on heightened alert
By Susan T. Wehren
Of the News-Times
Heightened security from terrorist attacks along the West Coast includes Yaquina Bay.
That is the word from United States Coast Guard Station Yaquina Bay in Newport. Spokespersons from Station Yaquina Bay said that following a nation-wide alert, the local station has been told to keep "an eye out" for strange activities, especially involving swimmers and divers.
Keeping track of all incoming and outgoing commercial and pleasure craft and additional checking around the docks are also part of the routine, said Erik Watson, boatswain's mate second class.
Coast Guard vessels are also patrolling off shore. "We always have cutters patrolling off the Pacific coast," said Petty Officer Robert Lanier of the Coast Guard's Seattle office. He said that while some of the patrols may have been stepped up, he does not see them doing anything beyond their normal duties of policing fisheries and performing search and rescue missions.
The Coast Guard cutter Orca from Coos Bay was in Yaquina Bay this week for a regular call as part of its normal drill activities, according to the Yaquina Bay station. On July 3, the Coast Guard is expecting the arrival of its first of four quick response teams created in response to terrorism.
The team, known as the Marine Safety and Security Team (MSST), will be stationed in Seattle and be responsible for the Northwest.
Other teams will be Long Beach, Calif.; Portsmouth, Va.; and Houston, Texas.
The teams will each have 30-foot boats designed to travel up to 40 knots. The boats can be put on a trailer and then placed on aircraft and flown to other ports for use to stop ships at sea before they come into a port.
The teams will have bomb-sniffing dogs that can be flown out to ships at sea along with their handlers.
In a related matter, Melissa Dickason, manager of Newport Water Sports dive shop in South Beach, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has contacted her about any sales the shop might have had of scuba "rebreathers."
This diving apparatus allows for recycling of exhalation by filtering out the nitrogen that is exhaled.
The rebreather allows divers to stay underwater longer, and more importantly does not show the bubbles normally seen with regular diving equipment.
Dickason said she told the FBI that her store had never sold any rebreathers. She said that at one time, the device cost as much as $7,000. "We do not even know where to order them," she said.

According to Petty Officer Lanier, the Coast Guard does not have any divers and must call on other branches of the service, such as the U.S. Navy, for diving.

[Libertina]

How can anyone be so suicidal and filled with hate for their own country?

[Libertina]

LOL The article right at your fingertips! I love FReepers!

[jrewingjr]

"He's cold, methodical, a perfectionist, a professional sniper in every sense of the phrase, true -- but he cares deeply about his fellow man, and is not only willing to lay down his life for humanity, every mission he takes on is proof of his beliefs and depth of caring." --Don Pendleton, author, describing his character Mack Bolan - "The Executioner."

They have their towelhead soldiers, but we have many, MANY, more REAL LIFE "Mack Bolans" who would rain death from afar and make their towels wet with blood and grey matter when it starts. Then a few of us "Ninja" types could have some fun up close and personal.

Careful what you wish for Achmed; you have NO IDEA what you are in for.

[TexKat]

Yeah, let them keep thinking, we are still sleeping. 9/11 woke most of us up, and those of us that are awake will have to protect those that refuse to awake. God bless our men and women that are overseas doing whatever it takes to keep us safe and preserve the American way.

[Squantos]

I have stated many times that I can not tell a good muslim from a bad muslim . Thus, if the good muslims don't get a handle on the bad muslims soon , they won't like how the problem is solved at all...........

BTW if anyone know's of wrong doing and criminal activity by such trash.......make sure to not wait till "someone else" catches them to "out" their "known" seditious anti-american (terrorist's not democrats :o) activities to the authorities..........or it may be too late , again.

Stay Safe ya'll !

[My Favorite Headache]

Was that last phrase a slap at me? I hope not. Because I did alert people and they ignored it. What were they going to hold him on? Nothing concrete to do such a thing. That is what they need. No matter how anti-american they are.Hindsight is 20/20.

[TexKat]

MFH overlook remarks like these. Some just read one or two sentences, if that, and then they get the oral runs.

[elcaudillo]

We'll get this spawn of satan out of all of North America when we have the march on Washington and begin boycotting of Canada and Mexico!

The boycotting should start immediately.

[Squantos]

Yeah .......you'll excuse me if I don't join all the other's here slapping you on the back after the fact.......

Yes, your prior knowledge of "events" that "you" told all here about in each of your posts such as the knife to the co-workers neck ect ect made me wonder what you were waiting for ?

But that's your business . The great thing about forums are when you post "your business" you invite "opinions" and you have mine , right , wrong or impolite you have mine now.

Stay Safe !

[elcaudillo]

I don't know what country you live in, Squanto, but it surely isn't the politically correct New United States of America.

People lose their jobs for bringing things to the attention of superiors, police agencies etc., especially when it potentially could lead to negativity against diversity. I believe that MFH did all that could have been done at the time, but now that the terrorist-muslim has raped a child it becomes an entire new opportunity.

What a shame on our nation that it has to come down to this level of stupidity.

[Squantos]

People lose their jobs for bringing things to the attention of superiors, police agencies etc., especially when it potentially could lead to negativity against diversity

I sense a whole lot of sarcasm in that post regarding this issue or a perfect example of the problem we live with everywhere in America these days .

Stay Safe !

[SEA]

I agree with the other Freepers--call the FBI. But don't leave it there. Someone is protecting someone for that situation to exist. I would say spread the story to any news outlets that will take it. If the public knows, the FBI MAY be forced to handle it.

[My Favorite Headache]

The knife attack was something I only found out about after the arrest. That was relayed to me by authorities. As for a pat on the back? If you want to trade places here...feel free.