La Mesa
La Mesa police are asking the community’s help in finding a rapist who forced his way into an apartment and assaulted the female occupant at gunpoint.
The rape occurred about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at an apartment building in the 7100 block of Amherst Street, police said. The suspect forced his way into the woman’s apartment after asking her about the rent of an adjacent apartment, police said.
Once inside the apartment, the man threatened the woman with a handgun, tied her up and sexually assaulted her. He ransacked the apartment before leaving, police said.
Police are looking for a well-groomed white man, 35 to 40 years old, 6 feet tall, 180 to 200 pounds, medium build, pot-bellied, with straight dark brown hair, a neatly trimmed full beard and a mole on his left cheek.
At the time of the crime, he was wearing dark blue jeans, a long-sleeved, blue-striped rugby-type shirt and aviator-style eye glasses.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the La Mesa Police Investigation Division at 469-6116.
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