A metro Denver man kidnapped 4 ladies at gunpoint and sexually assaulted them after he discovered them on hookup web sites, based on an arrest affidavit.
Glen Orion Meridith, 36, was arrested Might 13 on suspicion of eight counts of sexual assault, three counts of kidnapping and menacing and one rely of assault associated to drugging a sufferer.
Aurora and Denver police recognized Meridith whereas investigating 4 assaults throughout the 2 cities in December, January, February and March, detectives wrote within the affidavit.
The assaults adopted the same sample — Meridith would meet the ladies, a few of whom had been escorts, by web sites or apps for private adverts, together with the location “Mega Personals.”
He would then decide up the victims in his pink Jeep and, in some instances, give them cash earlier than he pulled out a gun and pressed it to their necks or temples. He threatened them and compelled them into the again seat, the place the doorways had been locked with baby locks, then took their telephones and sexually assaulted them a number of instances.
Meridith would typically snort or smoke cocaine and drink in the course of the assaults and file them on his cellphone, investigators mentioned. He compelled one of many ladies to take cocaine throughout an assault.
A number of of the ladies reported choking, struggling to breathe and vomiting in the course of the assaults, police wrote.
With two victims, he accused them of being chargeable for him being robbed after earlier “hookups,” however the ladies instructed police they’d by no means met Meridith earlier than. In a single incident, Meridith saved the sufferer in his automobile for 13 hours after the assault as he drove round Denver earlier than she was capable of escape, investigators mentioned.
After the opposite assaults, Meridith would drive to a special location and threaten to kill the ladies in the event that they didn’t depart instantly.
Investigators consider there could also be different victims within the case, and anybody with data can contact the Denver Police Intercourse Crimes Unit at 720-913-6040.
Meridith is in custody on the Denver County Jail on a $1 million bond. He’s set to look in courtroom on June 12.
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