ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, January 17, 1996 TAG: 9601170043
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI STAFF WRITER
A 38-year-old Northwest Roanoke man has been charged with raping and robbing a co-worker at knifepoint early Sunday.
According to Roanoke police, a 30-year-old woman, a friend and the man left work and went to the man's apartment about 6 a.m. Sunday. After the woman's friend left the apartment, the man pulled a knife, telling the woman she was not going to leave, police said.
The man walked her to a pay phone, where she called her boyfriend and told him she would be spending the night at a friend's house because she had been drinking, police said. Once back at the apartment, the man held her at knifepoint, raped her and hit her in the head with his fist, police said.
Police said the woman told them she was allowed to leave only after she gave the man all her money.
Arthur Brown of Williamson Road Northwest was charged with rape and robbery.
In other incidents:
An 18-year-old Vinton man reported that he was robbed late Monday in Southwest Roanoke.
About 11:56, Marvin Scott Patterson was in his car at South Jefferson Street and Franklin Road when a man wearing stone-washed jeans and a dark stocking cap opened an unlocked door and got into the car. The man said he wanted a ride and reached under his shirt as if he had a gun. The man took Patterson's ring and necklace and got out of the car at 13th Street and Salem Avenue Southwest. The jewelry is valued at $500.
A 27-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint in Northwest Roanoke early Sunday, police said. No one was injured.
About 1:05, Russell Graziano stopped near a closed service station on 10th Street Northwest when two men in a yellow, older-model car flashed their headlights at him.
One of the two men pulled a snub-nosed handgun and demanded money. Graziano gave them $50.
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