A 17-year-old lady was held hostage for almost per week and raped at a Large Bear Lake-area house earlier than escaping from a locked automotive, in line with the San Bernardino Police Division.
Police mentioned in an announcement launched Tuesday that the near-weeklong hostage state of affairs ended Thursday when the lady escaped and sought assist from workers at a neighborhood enterprise on the Village, a preferred Large Bear buying district. The workers notified regulation enforcement.
Police have recognized 25-year-old Zackary Dourousseau of Sugarloaf because the sufferer’s alleged captor. He was arrested and booked on suspicion of kidnapping, false imprisonment and statutory rape.
He’s free on bail, in line with San Bernardino County jail data.
Police investigators mentioned Dourousseau picked up {the teenager} in his automobile on the evening of March 1. They declare he drove her to his house, the place he requested to have intercourse together with her. Police mentioned, after the lady refused, he held her hostage for six days, offering her with little water or meals.
“Dourousseau wouldn’t let the sufferer go away and made her devour massive quantities of alcohol,” the police assertion learn. “Dourousseau compelled the sufferer to have intercourse with him in alternate for her freedom.”
Police mentioned the suspect compelled the sufferer to drive with him to the place he works on the Village on Thursday, the place he meant for her to stay in his locked automotive. Police mentioned she made her escape, and afterward Dourousseau was taken into custody at his house within the 300 block of Los Angeles Avenue in Sugarloaf.
Police didn’t say if the lady knew the suspect earlier than final week.
