Police: Woman seeking love robbed, sexually assaulted
EVERETT, Wash. -- She was looking for love, but what she got was anything but.
Investigators said the woman posted an online personals ad and got a response from a man. That man, later identified as Curtis T. Sather, asked her to meet.
She drove to an Everett apartment, and "was talking with Sather when she pulled into the parking lot," the police report said.
But when she approached him, "Sather immediately attacked her and tried to rip her clothes off," successfully removing her top, the woman told investigators. She added she "was afraid for her life and started to scream for her life" while trying to fight him off, the report said.
When the woman eventually managed to free herself, Sather grabbed her purse and ran off, according to investigators. The woman called 911.
Police arrived on the scene, and K-9 officers tried to track the scent of the woman's purse that was taken, but the man was not found.
Using the phone number the man had given to the alleged victim, investigators tracked him to an apartment in the 900 block of 115th St. SW.
When an officer went to question the man, Sather came to the front door, "turned around and placed his hands behind his back," according to the police report. Asked why he did so, Sather said, "When the cops talk to me, they always want to arrest me," the report said.
Sather, 27, was placed under arrest after being positively identified by the alleged victim. He is being held at the Snohomish County Jail under investigation of taking indecent liberties with forcible compulsion and second-degree robbery.
Investigators said the woman posted an online personals ad and got a response from a man. That man, later identified as Curtis T. Sather, asked her to meet.
She drove to an Everett apartment, and "was talking with Sather when she pulled into the parking lot," the police report said.
But when she approached him, "Sather immediately attacked her and tried to rip her clothes off," successfully removing her top, the woman told investigators. She added she "was afraid for her life and started to scream for her life" while trying to fight him off, the report said.
When the woman eventually managed to free herself, Sather grabbed her purse and ran off, according to investigators. The woman called 911.
Police arrived on the scene, and K-9 officers tried to track the scent of the woman's purse that was taken, but the man was not found.
Using the phone number the man had given to the alleged victim, investigators tracked him to an apartment in the 900 block of 115th St. SW.
When an officer went to question the man, Sather came to the front door, "turned around and placed his hands behind his back," according to the police report. Asked why he did so, Sather said, "When the cops talk to me, they always want to arrest me," the report said.
Sather, 27, was placed under arrest after being positively identified by the alleged victim. He is being held at the Snohomish County Jail under investigation of taking indecent liberties with forcible compulsion and second-degree robbery.
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