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SAN RAFAEL RAPE SUSPECT DELAYS ENTERING PLEAS
02/14/06 3:30 PST
SAN RAFAEL (BCN)

A man charged with raping a 15-year-old, ninth-grade San Rafael High School girl Monday did not enter pleas to the charges this afternoon and will be arraigned Wednesday morning in Marin County Superior Court.

The Marin County Public Defender's office was appointed to represent 26-year-old Jorge Alberto Ek-Luna. San Rafael police said he recently arrived from Mexico.

He is in the Marin County jail under both an Immigration and Naturalization Service hold and $750,000 bail. He has been charged with rape, assault, kidnapping, committing lewd and lascivious acts with a 14- or 15-year-old girl, damaging a wireless communication device, providing false identification to police and an enhancement alleging a prior felony strike as a sex offender, according to the county jail.

San Rafael police said Ek-Luna approached the girl from behind around 8 a.m. as she was walking to school alone on Third Street. He allegedly held a broken bottle to her throat, took away her cell phone, forced her into some bushes and raped her, police said.

Police spokeswoman Margo Rohrbacher said Ek-Luna then forced the girl to go with him, possibly toward a motel, but a passerby who saw an older man dragging a girl with his arm around her neck and called police. Ek-Luna was arrested near a car dealership on Francisco Boulevard and Hoag Avenue.

He will be arraigned at 9 a.m.