DAVIE, Fla. – An alleged rapist was captured after he forced his victim to write him a check and then tried to cash it, police said.
Anthony R. Roberts, 25, was arrested Wednesday night outside a check-cashing store, minutes after he left the woman’s apartment, police said.
Police said Roberts forced his way into her apartment at gunpoint, bound her with tape and raped her. But first he forced her to make out a $1,400 check in his name, and told her to write on it that it was for electrical work, authorities said.
“I don’t know what the guy was thinking,” said police spokesman Lt. Bill Bamford. “To walk into a check-cashing store like nothing happened, like she paid him for a job. That’s one of the lowest forms of life.”
The victim freed herself and called 911. Officers rushed to her apartment and as they talked to her, a suspicious clerk at a check-cashing store nearby called the woman to ask about the check. Police surrounded the store and arrested Roberts.
He was jailed without bail.
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