RICHMOND — A San Pablo man is facing charges that he kidnapped two women and held a third against her will over the course of a month, alleged crimes that were investigated after one woman reported being kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted over two days.
The investigation started last August, when a woman — known in court files only as Jane Doe 1 — reported that Rodas showed up to the homeless encampment where she lived, gun in hand, and forced her into his Ford pickup truck. She reported that over the next two days, Rodas raped and sexually assaulted her multiple times, force-fed her methamphetamine, and took her to a Home Depot in Vallejo where he forced her to steal items on his behalf, court records show.
But a week after that, at around 10 p.m. on Aug. 20, a second woman came forward in a notable way: she flagged down a passing motorist on 24th Street in Richmond, and asked for a ride to the San Pablo Police Department. Once there, she told investigators she was a sex worker who’d been kidnapped by a man earlier that evening, who she knew as “Rico.”
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