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Updated: 5:17 p.m. Monday, March 23, 2009 | Posted: 5:17 p.m. Monday, March 23, 2009

Woman Allegedly Raped After Meeting Man From Craigslist Ad



FEDERAL WAY, Wash. —

A woman told police she was raped by a man she talked to through a Craigslist ad, said the Federal Way Police Department.

The woman placed an ad on Craigslist seeking “companionship,” police said. She was contacted by a man and agreed to go to his apartment in the 27900 block of Pacific Highway in Federal Way Monday morning.

When she arrived, the man forced her to have sex at gunpoint, she told Federal Way police. She was able to get away and call police.

Police surrounded the man’s apartment and arrested him. A gun was also found in the apartment, police said.

He is being booked into the King County Jail on possible rape charges.

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