For nearly two hours, a 70-year-old childless elderly woman, a resident of Rehovot, underwent a brutal rape during which he committed a suspect, serious sexual offenses while threatening her life that if she shouted he would kill her. Less than three hours after the report was received by the Rehovot police, the police were able, using advanced technological means, to carry out the arrest of the 30-year-old suspect, a criminal known to the police as the person behind the heinous act. Tomorrow morning, the suspect will be brought to the Magistrate’s Court in Rishon Lezion, where the police will ask for an extension of his detention.
This is a young man with a criminal record in the field of drugs and violence, who in 2020 even ran a prison sentence for stabbing. During the rape, the suspect, who broke into the elderly woman’s apartment through a shuttered door in the house, was about to fall drunk, and he left her apartment not long before he robbed jewelry. As mentioned, around 7:30 in the morning, a report was received at the 100 hotline of the police from an elderly woman who was heard in a strangled voice describing a severe rape that she went through all while frightened and frightened.
Meanwhile, a senior police official noted: “Due to the seriousness of the incident and the circumstances, he was given top priority by the Central District Police and we arrived at the scene shortly to collect detailed testimony from the victim of the crime. “When the suspect, while making threats, commits serious sexual offenses against her. Immediately after he finished the horror, he robbed her of her jewelry and fled the scene.”
Large forces of police from Rehovot station rushed to the scene and began a manhunt in an attempt to track down a suspect in the act using technological means, evidence as well as findings collected from the scene. In less than three hours, street cops managed to get their hands on a suspect in the acts and he was arrested for questioning. In addition, another suspect, a family member of the main suspect, was arrested for questioning on suspicion of aiding and abetting the distortion of the evidence.
The police escorted the elderly woman to the hospital where she is hospitalized after severe injuries were found on her body and at the same time a report was sent to the welfare authorities who will assist the elderly woman also in the future. “We are accompanying the elderly woman until she is released from the hospital, in parallel with the completion of the investigation against the suspect in order to exhaust the full severity of the law with him.”