EVERETT — An Everett man, 43, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly raping a woman at gunpoint on the Tulalip Indian Reservation, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.

According to court papers, the woman only knew the man by his first name. They had just met at a Burger King in Marysville on April 28, when she agreed to smoke methamphetamine and got into a maroon vehicle with him. Afterward, she reported, he was supposed to drop her off at her home, just a few blocks away.

He took off in a different direction, and allegedly took out a pistol and hit her in the head. He ordered her to put her hands and head on the dashboard, the woman reported.

They ended up at a parking lot overlooking the water in the 12400 block of Sunny Shores Road, where he allegedly raped her at gun point, according to court papers.

Eventually, the woman found an opportunity to escape. A man walking his dog near the Port Susan Camp Club beach access reported to deputies that he saw the woman, barely clothed, leap from the parking lot area and fall and slide down the hillside. She was distraught and crying, and said she had been raped at gunpoint, the bystander reported.

To find the man, detectives interviewed witnesses and wrote multiple search warrants. A break came on May 1, when the woman called detectives saying she and a friend had encountered the suspect again, at a Safeway store. He had been driving the same maroon vehicle, and this time she got the license plate number.

Detectives identified the suspect by doing a records check on the vehicle. It appeared registered to someone else, but the man had been contacted in the vehicle for a suspected hit and run collision on April 30.

Around 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, detectives with the Snohomish County Violent Offenders Task Force and the sheriff’s Special Investigation Unit found the man at a Chevron gas station in Everett.

He reportedly told detectives that he had paid the woman $30 to have sex. Afterward, they smoked more methamphetamine, and “she started to get weird,” he said. She got out and yelled for help, he reported. He then “freaked out and left,” he said, according to court papers.

The man was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of first-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping. Everett District Court Judge Patricia Lyon set his bail at $500,000. A deputy noted the suspect was a convicted felon and that he didn’t have a home address where he could be reached.

The case fell under the sheriff’s office jurisdiction, as neither the suspect nor the woman were tribal members.

Zachariah Bryan: 425-339-3431; zbryan@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @zachariahtb.