Dairy Mart RAPE
This tragic victimization brings to mind a whole host of troubling issues, including the dangerous prospect of being forced to disarm at posted businesses and other victim zones, restrictive car carry language (plain sight in a holster on the persons' person) in Ohio's new concealed carry law, which is much more difficult for a woman to comply with, and of course that CHLs are forbidden to adults under 21 years of age.
May 22, 2004
Akron Beacon Journal
Man jailed on rape charge
Woman, 18, tells police that stranger entered her vehicle in store lot
BRUNSWICK - A 21-year-old Brunswick man has been jailed on a rape charge after a woman said she was abducted from a Medina Township Dairy Mart, police announced Friday.
Stephen Unland of the 4000 block of Center Road was being held Friday in the Medina County Jail in lieu of a $50,000 bond, a jail official said.
An 18-year-old Brunswick woman reported to police that she was abducted by a stranger from the Dairy Mart at U.S. 42 and Fenn Road at 11:30 p.m. on April 16, Brunswick police Sgt. Joseph McDermott said.
He said the man asked the woman for a ride to Brunswick. When she refused, the man got into her vehicle, told her to drive and sexually assaulted her in the vehicle at stops in Brunswick Hills Township and Brunswick, McDermott said. The man then fled from the vehicle.
Investigators were able to create two drawings of the man based on statements by the victim and a witness who reported a suspicious person in the area at the time the woman told police she was abducted, he said.
Using the composite drawings and other information, investigators arrested Unland on Thursday, McDermott said.
The case will be presented to a Medina County grand jury, and additional felony charges could be filed, McDermott said.
The Akron Beacon Journal usually does not identify the victim of a sexual assault.
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