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Two are charged with kidnapping woman at bar, assaulting her at apartment
The woman told police she got separated from her boyfriend before she was drugged and kidnapped.
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by Gene Hartley and Jerry Jacob, KY3 News
news@ky3.com 11:17 p.m. CDT, June 3, 2013
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Two college students are charged with kidnapping a woman from a bar, carrying her nearly unconscious into an apartment, and sexually assaulting her. City police say a tip from a taxi driver led them to the apartment, where they interrupted the assault.
Rayan Alqabbaa, 21, and Ahmed Alanazi, 27, are each charged with forcible sodomy and kidnapping. Prosecutors asked for $1 million bonds on each of them because they're from Saudi Arabia and might be flight risks. If they're convicted, they could get life (30-year) prison sentences. Police say they're students at Missouri State University.
The probable cause statement against the men says police got a call about 2:50 a.m. Saturday from a taxi driver after he took two men and a woman "in and out of consciousness" to an apartment at 701 Elm St., where both men rent separate apartments. When police arrived, they said they heard a woman moaning inside the apartments of one of the men.
When police went inside they found Alanazi and Alqabbaa. They asked if a woman was in the apartment, and Alanazi pointed them to a locked bedroom door, according to the probable cause statement. Police found a woman crying, asking for help, and lying partially unclothed on a bed in a fetal position with vomit on the bed. She told police she didn't know the two men in the apartment, and told police that her attackers were "bad" men.
Police looked at surveillance video at the apartment and saw one of the men carry the unconscious woman into the apartment over his shoulder. They found bruses, cuts and abrasions on the woman's hands, arms and chin.
After the woman was treated at a hospital, police spoke to her by telephone, according to the probable cause statement. The woman said she went into Zan Nightclub on Patton Avenue while her boyfriend was parking the car.
"When she entered, the bartender gave her two drinks and told her they were on the house," the probable cause statement says. "She consumed the drinks and does not remember much after that. She said she remembered a group of men surrounding her. They grabbed her by the arms and were pulling her hair. She said she did not know them. She does not remember how she got out of the bar and into the apartment."
The woman told police that the men held her down when she tried to leave the apartment.
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