Man suspected of raping 74-year-old woman arrested: sheriff’s dept.
02/07/2017 9:01 am PST
By Tracy Bloom, KTLA
MENTONE, Calif. -- (KTLA) -- A man accused of raping a 74-year-old woman in her Mentone home last month has been arrested, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department announced Tuesday.
James Robert Hiles, 30, was taken into custody in Mentone on Monday after evidence collected from the scene implicated him in the crime, according to a sheriff's news release.
Hiles was booked into the Central Detention Center in San Bernardino on a charge of rape by force or fear, according to county inmate records. He is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail.
The victim told investigators that she was asleep in her home about 9:15 p.m. on Jan. 16, when she awoke to a man on top of her who was choking her, according to the release.
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