A couple of Good Samaritans stopped a rape in progress in Moclips Friday, the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Deputies and detectives responded to a home on Otis Avenue in Moclips at about 4:25 p.m., where a 53-year-old woman told them her live-in boyfriend of four years had assaulted her. The woman was “extremely emotional and had minor scrapes and scratches on her head,” Chief Criminal Deputy Steve Shumate said, and told police her 49-year-old boyfriend was upset with her over a conversation she had with another man.
The two were in the man’s car when he pulled down a logging spur and started assaulting the woman, Shumate said. The man allegedly then began raping her.
A man and a woman who lived in the area were driving by at the time and heard the woman’s screams for help. They stopped and yelled at the man to stop. He did stop and then drove away in the car, Shumate said..
The witnesses gave the woman a ride to the home on Otis Avenue where she was contacted by deputies and aid. She was transported to Grays Harbor Community Hospital, where she was treated and released.
Deputies found the man later that evening at another home on Otis Avenue, where he was arrested and booked into Grays Harbor County Jail for first-degree rape.
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