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Woman Protects Herself With .38 Special-Stops Rape
Mercury
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Yet another defensive use of a gun, right here in Tucson.
Woman fights back in Midtown attack
By L. Anne Newell
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Rodney B. Polon
Tucson police arrested a 41-year-old convicted sex offender Wednesday, accusing him of breaking into a Midtown home earlier in the day and attempting to assault a woman.
The 22-year-old woman pulled a .38-caliber revolver from under her bed shortly after police say Rodney B. Polon jumped on top of her about 5 a.m. She fired a shot close to his head as they struggled, said Tucson police Sgt. Judy Altieri, and Polon fled the home, near East Fifth Street and North Swan Road.
Officers arrested him without incident about six hours later at a home in the 800 block of North Erin Avenue, near where the attack occurred, Altieri said, after following up on the woman's description and physical evidence found at the scene.
Altieri said Polon pried open a window to get into the home of the woman, who suffered minor injuries in the attack.
The attack is not related to a string of sexual assaults that took place in Midtown and were linked to a series of attacks in San Diego, Altieri said. It is also not related to a series of sex crimes that took place on the UA campus near the end of the spring semester, she said.
Polon was sentenced to up five years in prison for a 1985 sexual abuse conviction, according to Arizona Department of Corrections' records, and was released in 1989. He was convicted of selling marijuana in 1995 and put on intensive probation.
He was taken to the Pima County Jail and charged with one count each of sexual abuse, attempted sexual assault, kidnapping, burglary, attempted burglary and aggravated assault. He was held in lieu of $30,000 bond.
http://www.azstarnet.com/star/today/20718sexualassault.html
NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!
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"Tolerating things you may not necessarily like is part of being free" - Larry Flynt
Woman fights back in Midtown attack
By L. Anne Newell
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Rodney B. Polon
Tucson police arrested a 41-year-old convicted sex offender Wednesday, accusing him of breaking into a Midtown home earlier in the day and attempting to assault a woman.
The 22-year-old woman pulled a .38-caliber revolver from under her bed shortly after police say Rodney B. Polon jumped on top of her about 5 a.m. She fired a shot close to his head as they struggled, said Tucson police Sgt. Judy Altieri, and Polon fled the home, near East Fifth Street and North Swan Road.
Officers arrested him without incident about six hours later at a home in the 800 block of North Erin Avenue, near where the attack occurred, Altieri said, after following up on the woman's description and physical evidence found at the scene.
Altieri said Polon pried open a window to get into the home of the woman, who suffered minor injuries in the attack.
The attack is not related to a string of sexual assaults that took place in Midtown and were linked to a series of attacks in San Diego, Altieri said. It is also not related to a series of sex crimes that took place on the UA campus near the end of the spring semester, she said.
Polon was sentenced to up five years in prison for a 1985 sexual abuse conviction, according to Arizona Department of Corrections' records, and was released in 1989. He was convicted of selling marijuana in 1995 and put on intensive probation.
He was taken to the Pima County Jail and charged with one count each of sexual abuse, attempted sexual assault, kidnapping, burglary, attempted burglary and aggravated assault. He was held in lieu of $30,000 bond.
http://www.azstarnet.com/star/today/20718sexualassault.html
NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!
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"Tolerating things you may not necessarily like is part of being free" - Larry Flynt
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"A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows"
Rugster
Splat! There's no justice like the instant kind!
Guns are good, Guns are great... please don't throw them in the lake.