Ex-Boyfriend Hides in Trunk of Woman’s Car, Threatens To Kill Her – Crime Online

An Ohio man was arrested this week after he allegedly hid within the trunk of his ex-girlfriend’s automotive and assaulted her whereas she was driving.

Jarrod Rodriguez, 40, was charged with kidnapping, aggravated theft, assault, and aggravated menacing and was ordered held on a $250,000 bond on Friday.

The sufferer advised police that Rodriguez hid within the hatchback of her automotive at her dwelling in Harrison on Thursday — till she had pushed onto the freeway, in line with WXIX.

“He jumped within the entrance seat and began beating me,” she mentioned. “I didn’t know he was in my automotive.”

In response to an affidavit for his arrest, Rodriguez “struck the sufferer with a closed fist in the best aspect of her face, made the sufferer imagine he was going to kill her by pulling a black handgun and a knife out of his backpack, placing the gun to the sufferer’s proper aspect of her physique and telling her she ‘had two hours to alter his thoughts.’”

“He then ordered her to drive quicker and advised her the place to go, all whereas holding the gun to her aspect,” the affidavit mentioned. “Mr. Rodriguez then advised her he would shoot her up with sufficient heroin to make her overdose.”

After a while on the street, the sufferer pulled the automobile to aspect and jumped out. The primary 911 calls got here in at that time, from witnesses who noticed Rodriguez, with the gun, hitting the girl and making an attempt to tug her again into the automotive.

The sufferer obtained away from him and ran to a close-by fuel station. She additionally referred to as police as Rodriguez drove off in her automotive.

Rodriguez was arrested on Thursday. He’s due again in courtroom on February 7.

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[Featured image: Jarrod Rodriguez/Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office]