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Police blotter: Huntington woman reports being raped in Barboursville

November 06, 2009 @ 12:00 AM

The following information was provided by the Cabell County Sheriff's Office:

A 20-year-old Huntington woman provided a written statement to sheriff's deputies from the Cabell Huntington Hospital emergency room on Wednesday that has been robbed and raped by a Barboursville man in his 20s.

The woman said she met the person in Hurricane on Tuesday and they drove to a campground in Barboursville where she was forced to have sex with the man at knifepoint.

She said the suspect stole $110 and 35 Percocet pills and left her at the camp. Police have a suspect.

LARCENY: A 72-year-old Barboursville man reported that someone entered the front yard of his home in the 5000 block of Lower Heath Creek Road sometime between 6 p.m. Monday and noon Tuesday and stole two 9-month-old Beagle puppies. The black and tan dogs were valued at $500 each.

THEFT FROM A MOTOR VEHICLE: A 29-year-old Milton woman reported that sometime between 1 a.m. and 3 p.m. Oct. 28, someone entered her unlocked car while it was parked in the 1100 block of James River Turnpike in Milton. She stated that about 100 CDs, valued at $1,500, and a $250 iPod were stolen.

The following information was provided by the Huntington Police Department:

A 26-year-old Huntington woman reported that around 2:30 a.m. Thursday that a man entered her car while she was sleeping in it and stole $140 from the console after stopping the vehicle car around 20th Street and Artisan Avenue.

Police have one suspect who is described as a light-skinned black man in his 20s, wearing a jacket with "Interstate Batteries" or a NASCAR logo on the back.

FELONY DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY: A 56-year-old man living in the 2900 block of Chase Street called police Wednesday to report that a man was trying to steal his outside air conditioning unit. Police responded to the area and spotted a man fitting the description, wearing a hoodie and walking with his hands over the front pouch.

Police arrested Gregory Allen Yates II, 31, and charged him with grand larceny and misdemeanor counts possession of a controlled substance and petit larceny.

The damage was estimated at more than $2,700.

FALSE PRETENSE: A St. Albans man reported that he had visited a Spectrum, a former Huntington bar located in the 2000 block of 3rd Avenue, in early October. He said he paid his bill with a credit card, then found that new charges in the amount of $900 had been added throughout the month.

GRAND LARCENY: A 31-year-old man stated his laptop was stolen at Empire Books in Pullman Square around 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1. The computer's value was estimated at $1,426.

LARCENY: A 60-year-old woman reported that someone came to her residence in the 600 block of West 14th Street and cut the electric and freon connection and took two outside air conditioning units. The total value and damage was estimated at $5,000. The incident, she reported, took place sometime between 8 a.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. Wednesday.