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Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL)
June 7, 2008
Bunnell pushes to solve rape cases in timely manner
2 arrested in separate cases
Author: HEATHER SCOFIELD - STAFF WRITER
Dateline: BUNNELL
BUNNELL - Bunnell police have arrested two people on rape charges, one involving a woman
held hostage and another in which a 7-year-old boy was attacked, officials said.
John Robert Stubbs, 38, Bunnell is being held without bail at the Flagler County Inmate Facility
on charges of sexual battery and false imprisonment.
And Edward G. Sampson, 14, Bunnell, was taken to the juvenile detention center in Volusia
County, also charged with sexual battery, Chief Armando Martinez announced this week.
Both were cases that would likely have gone unsolved before Martinez was hired just over a
year ago, the chief investigator on the cases, Cpl. John Murray, said.
"In the past, these kinds of cases were closed out if they couldn't be solved in eight hours,"
Murray said.
But it's "cases like these you never stop pursuing," Martinez said, and that's been his motto since
becoming chief.
One rape investigation was initiated May 15 after a 25-year-old woman reported she'd been held
hostage for two days, tied to a bed and raped multiple times by Stubbs, according to police
reports.
She said Stubbs grabbed her and pulled her into a home on South Anderson Street in Bunnell as
she was walking nearby in search of drugs to support her cocaine habit, according to the report.
On the second day, Stubbs brought in another woman, with whom he had sex. After Stubbs fell
asleep and the second woman left, the first woman escaped and called police.
When police arrived, the woman had a black eye, numerous cuts and bruises on her body and
many around her throat, according to the incident report. She told police when she tried to fight
Stubbs during the rapes, he choked her until she passed out, the report said.
Stubbs told investigators sex with the woman was consensual, but she was only willing when
high. He denied holding her against her will or injuring her.
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