Uniontown man charged with rape
Uniontown police have filed multiple charges against a city man accused of raping a woman early Thursday. Sgt. Jonathan S. Grabiak said Harold A. Jones III, 21, of 163 Lincoln St., Uniontown, was charged before Magisterial District Judge Ronald J. Haggerty Sr. with two counts of rape, unlawful restraint, simple assault and harassment after he allegedly held a Dunbar woman against her will and forced her to have sex with him. Grabiak said police were summoned to the Uniontown Hospital Thursday afternoon for a report of a rape.
He said police found the alleged victim reporting that Jones picked her up at her home in Dunbar around 9 p.m. Wednesday and that they and some friends were “just going for a ride,” Grabiak said.
He said that the woman told investigators that Jones eventually drove her to a home on Edgemont Drive where she and Jones started arguing.
Grabiak said that the woman then tried to call her mother for a ride but Jones took her cellular telephone. He said the woman then left the residence on foot but was stopped by Jones who carried her into the residence against her will and then threw her to the floor.
Grabiak said Jones then choked the woman while raping her.
Following the alleged rape, Grabiak said the woman again tried to walk from the home to a nearby gas station but was stopped a second time by Jones who told her, “You are not leaving. You are not going anywhere.”
Jones then forced her back into the home and again had sexual intercourse with her against her will, Grabiak said.
Grabiak said Jones continued to force the woman to stay inside the residence until he fell asleep around 6 a.m.
He said the woman then ran from the home.
The Herald-Standard does not identify the victims of alleged sexual assault.
Grabiak said he took Jones into custody without incident at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Pershing Court.
The rape charge comes just two months after Jones was released from prison on parole following a six-month stint in jail for shooting a Uniontown man in the leg in 2008.
Jones was placed in the Fayette County Prison on $50,000 straight cash bond, following his arraignment.
A preliminary hearing is set for Tuesday in Uniontown.