Woman fights off attemped abduction
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The suspect, Ramone A. Varas Robles, 48, is charged with assault and kidnapping for the Saturday evening attack which was thwarted when the woman fought back against her diminutive attacker.
?I don?t know where I hit him, but I hit him hard,? the woman told police of the struggle after she was grabbed from behind while buying a drink from a vending machine.
The woman, Beverly Butcher, 31, said she was about to put her money into the machine when someone grabbed her by the hair. She said the man then drug her behind the building and pulled her to the ground with his arm around her throat from behind.
She said at that point she took a swing at the man, hitting him squarely and prompting him to let go and run away. It was during the scramble the woman said she got a good look at her attacker, describing him as a small Hispanic man, wearing a sleeveless black shirt, red hat and sporting several tattoos on his arms.
Police knew who they were looking for within minutes of being flagged down by the woman and given the description and the suspect?s past brushes with the law. The suspect was identified as the attacker by the woman and her son when he answered the knock at his door, located within sight of the alleged crime.
While denying his involvement, the suspect was unable to hide a sleeveless black shirt seen by police on a piece of furniture. An attempt to hide a red hat before police saw it also failed, with both pieces of clothing connecting him to the crime, along with his tattoos and relatively small size of 5-foot-1, 111 pounds.