Arrested for rape
A transient was arrested Sept. 28 for the rape of a Des Moines woman with Down's syndrome.
Raymond H. Moultrie, 27, allegedly was posing as a door-to-door magazine salesman when he went to the home of the 28-year-old woman, who lives with her mother.
Her mother had gone out to run errands that night when Moultrie knocked on the door and was let in.
Charging papers filed in King County Superior Court state the woman, who has the mental capacity of a grade-school child, was then sexually assaulted by the accused man.
He was arrested in the parking lot of a shopping center at S. 272nd St. and Pacific Highway S.
Moultrie is charged with second-degree rape and is being held on $750,000 bail in the King County Regional Justice Center.
He will be arraigned Oct. 10.
Attempted abduction
An unidentified man tried to abduct a 12-year-old girl while she was walking to school Sept. 29.
The girl was walking to Pacific Middle School in the 12800 block of 24th Ave. S when the man in a silver car pulled up next to her and asked where she was going. She told him and he offered her a ride.
When she said no, he jumped out of the car, grabbed her, and tried to push her in. The girl started to scream, and a red car driven by a white female pulled up behind the man's car.
At that point, he got back in his car and drove south on 24th Ave. S. The red car also drove off.
When the girl got to the school she told her teacher, and school officials called the Des Moines Police Department.
Officers did an area check for the suspect and his car but were unable to find anything.
The man is described as a black man who spoke with an accent, 20-30 years of age, 6 feet tall, thin build, bald, with a "C" shaped scar on the back of his left hand. He was wearing brown slacks with a brown button-up long-sleeve shirt with a wavy American flag on the chest.
His car is described as a larger late-model car, silver, four doors, gray leather interior, with a number five in the license plate.
If any one has any information about this suspect or the witness, please contact the Des Moines Police Department at 206-878-3301.
