MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade police arrested a Miami man Friday after accusing him of picking up two different women on two separate occasions, offering them rides and then raping them at gunpoint.
Gregory Antwone Youngblood, 43, of Liberty City, now faces two counts of armed sexual battery.
Recommended Videos
According to police, the first rape happened on July 8.
Authorities said at around midnight, Youngblood approached a 25-year-old woman walking along Northwest 17th Avenue and 75th Street, in northwest Miami-Dade’s Gladeview area, and offered her a ride to her friend’s house.
Police said Youngblood instead drove past the intended destination and stopped his vehicle in the area of Northwest 12th Avenue and 72nd Street and asked the woman to have sex with him.
After she declined, Youngblood reached into the driver’s side door of his vehicle, pulled out a gun and told the woman, “Let’s just do this and get it over with,” and demanded she get into the back seat, an arrest report states.
Police said the woman complied and he raped her, refusing her pleas to use a condom.
After the assault, police said he then dropped the woman off nearby and fled. The woman would later go to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Rape Treatment Center, where she was examined and had a rape kit collected.
That rape kit later yielded a match to Youngblood’s DNA, the report states.
The second assault happened on Sept. 14, police said.
In that case, police said a 22-year-old woman walking in the area of Northwest 27th Avenue and 87th Street, in northwest Miami-Dade’s West Little River area, asked Youngblood for a ride just before 1:30 a.m.
Police said he drove the woman to Northwest 36th Avenue and 87th Street, demanded she get in the back of his SUV and raped her at gunpoint.
The woman pushed the “SOS” button on her phone during the attack, which summoned police to the scene, the arrest report states.
Youngblood took off with the woman as officers approached and authorities apprehended him Friday, authorities said.
Police said Youngblood denied the women’s accusations.
A Miami-Dade judge found probable cause to charge Youngblood with armed sexual battery and he remained held without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Monday morning.
If convicted, he could face life in prison.