PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- A local man is accused of raping and attempting to strangle a woman inside her apartment at Galego Court Monday afternoon.
Jose Encarnacion, 28, knew the 30-year-old woman he's accused of attacking, said Maj. Arthur Martins.
After assaulting the woman, Encarnacion took her phone, but she fled the apartment and found someone else to call police, Martins said.
Encarnacion left too, but didn't go far. As officers were responding, Detective Hans Cute saw him at a Weeden Street gas station and sent officers to arrest him, Martins said.
Encarnacion, of 302 Pullen Ave., was ordered held without bail at Tuesday's arraignment on charges of domestic first-degree sexual assault, domestic assault by strangulation, refusal to relinquish the phone, disorderly conduct and simple assault.