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Dysart man charged with rape at motel

Thompkins jailed after alleged assault

A Cambria County man is behind bars after he allegedly assaulted and raped a woman at a Logan Township motel.

Kevin D. Thompkins, 31, of Dysart, was arrested Saturday and booked on more than a dozen charges that include felony strangulation, rape and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse by force stemming from an alleged attack of a woman early Friday at Motel 6 on Sterling Street in Logan Township.

According to charges filed by Logan Township police, officers were dispatched just before 6 a.m. Friday for a woman who arrived at a Sheetz store along East Plank Road and begged employees to call 911 after she was allegedly assaulted in her motel room.

According to police, the woman had visible injuries and initially told officers that Thompkins had “choked her, punched her and threatened her with a stun gun,” according to police in an affidavit of probable cause filed in the case.

Police said the woman said she fled her Motel 6 room, and when officers checked it for Thompkins, he wasn’t there.

The woman was taken to UPMC Altoona by ambulance, and when police arrived to speak with her, they were told by an AMED paramedic that the woman had told ambulance personnel that Thomp­kins repeatedly sexually assaulted her in her motel room.

After a rape kit was completed, the woman told police she had been at a city bar when Thompkins started sending her text messages, requesting money and a ride to Gallitzin. She said she got multiple calls and texts from Thompkins, whom she had been friends with “on and off” for about a year, police said. She told police she refused to give him money or a ride, but as she was driving back to her motel about 10 p.m. Thurs­day, Thompkins pulled up behind her at a red light.

The woman said Thomp­kins bumped her ve­hicle with the front bumper of his truck, and although she tried to lose him in traffic, he followed her. She thought she lost Thomp­kins by the time she got to the motel, but as she started to shut her door, Thompkins was in the doorway.

The woman claimed she tried slamming the door on Thompkins, but he kicked in the door and forced his way inside the room.

It was there that Thomp­kins allegedly grabbed her by the throat and choked her, grabbed her arms and threw her on the bed. She said Thompkins took her cellphone and keys and told her “he wanted some.”

Police said the woman recounted that Thompkins forced off some of her clothes and choked her while lying on top of her. She also said he drained all the gas from her vehicle at some point in the night.

During the alleged attack, Thompkins allegedly threatened the woman, police said.

“You mess with the bull, you get the horns,” Thomp­kins allegedly told the wo­man. “I’m gonna kill you.”

The woman said Thomp­kins “continually taunted and threatened her” with a stun gun. She said during the incident, Thompkins would turn on the stun gun and ask, “You want this?”

He allegedly pressed the back of the stun gun against her chin and “ripped it in a downward motion, causing a visible abrasion” to the woman’s chin, police noted in the charges.

“Don’t yell, don’t scream,” Thompkins allegedly told her when she tried to escape the room. “I will choke you to death.”

He is also accused of telling the woman that if she told anyone what happened in the room or reported it to police, his three brothers would “take care of her” and “make her disappear.”

It was then that Thompkins allegedly raped the woman.

Ultimately, she got away when she talked Thompkins into giving her his keys so she could get money out of her vehicle to give to him. Although he watched her from the entrance of the motel so she wouldn’t drive off, the woman jumped in her vehicle and sped off when he looked away, police said.

Thompkins faces a total of 15 charges, including six felonies. He was arraigned Saturday night by Magis­terial District Judge Fred Miller and lodged in Blair County Prison in lieu of $100,000 cash bail.

A preliminary hearing is slated for Nov. 15 before Magisterial District Judge Steven Jackson.

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