LYNN — A 17-year-old city man was ordered held without bail Monday after police said a woman reported seeing the teen rape another woman at a party early Saturday morning.
“At first (the alleged victim) was scared and stated (the defendant) was not involved, and two males ran out the back door,” Lynn Police Officer John F. White reported. But White said the witness who called police “came down and started yelling,” and identified the defendant as the man who had raped the alleged victim.
Jelame Peter Garcia, 17, of 3 Circuit Ave., was arrested and charged with aggravated rape and indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or over at 2:37 a.m. Saturday.
Neither Assistant District Attorney Andrew Boyd nor Public Defender Chris Norris discussed the alleged incident in open court Monday at Garcia’s arraignment.
But court documents show that police responded to a report of an assault Friday evening on Green Street. A woman told police she and the alleged victim were visiting Lynn and had left a Union Street club when two males — one of whom the woman identified as Garcia — invited them to a party, according to White.
The woman said the group was drinking in the basement for hours but the conversation turned sexual and the woman went outside to smoke, according to the report. White reported the woman said she returned to find Garcia on top of the alleged victim, whose pants were down and was saying “no, no.”
She reported that she threw Garcia off the alleged victim and tried to get her to leave, according to police. But the second male — who is unidentified in the report — followed her outside, White reported. The woman told police that man got into her car with her, exposed himself and tried to kiss her, according to police. The woman told officers she called police when the man didn’t return after saying he would go get the alleged victim, according to White’s report.
Police said they found Garcia standing with his hands in his pockets and the alleged victim pulling up her pants when they entered the apartment.
The alleged victim then told police two men, one of whom was Garcia, had raped her, according to the police report. Police noted she had a similar story as the woman who reported the alleged crime, although she said she had called 9-1-1 several times, according to White’s report.
Garcia was arrested on scene and the alleged victim was transported to the hospital, White reported.
Boyd told the court Monday he was not ready to hold a dangerousness hearing because prosecutors had not been able to contact the victim as the number listed in the police report was incorrect.
Judge Matthew Nestor ordered Garcia held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for Jan. 22.
A phone message left at a number for Garcia was not returned Monday evening.
Cyrus Moulton can be reached at [email protected].
