FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Police arrested a Fort Lauderdale man on a sexual battery charge Thursday in connection with accusations from an acquaintance in 2023.
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Brenden Lee Jones, whose name is alternatively listed in official records as Brendon or Brendan Lee Jones, is accused of raping the woman on Sept. 15, 2023 after the two had gotten into a car crash and she was hurt.
According to an incident report from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, the woman, living at a Lauderhill homeless shelter, called that city’s police department to report that she was raped “somewhere behind the KFC” at 3100 W. Broward Blvd.
FLPD officers said they found no evidence of sexual assault there. However, court records show Jones, 40, lives three blocks due south of the restaurant in the Melrose Park neighborhood.
According to the report, the woman told officers in an interview that Jones, whom she knows as the drug dealer “Twin,” had picked her up from a food store near Dillard High School and as the two drove, they were rear-ended.
A friend of Jones picked them up after Jones fled the scene and Jones refused her request to be taken to the hospital, police said. The two men had to pick the victim up out of the vehicle “because she was in pain and immobile,” the report states.
Police said the two drove back to Jones’ house, even though the victim said she “told them to take her home if they weren’t going to take her to a hospital.”
Authorities said she fell asleep in Jones’ bed and awoke to him raping her, despite her telling him to stop.
The woman told police that Jones made comments like, “I can do what I want” and “Open your f---ing legs, you made me crash my car,” according to the report.
Police wrote that through tears, she told detectives she felt “helpless” during the rape.
Authorities said Jones’ DNA turned up in rape kit evidence processed in 2024, leading to his eventual arrest Thursday.
Florida Department of Corrections records show Jones has served time in prison for robbery, selling cocaine and escape.
As of Friday, Jones was being held in the Broward Main Jail on a $150,000 bond.