Sexual assault and armed robbery
Date, Times & Locations:
08-06-09, 1600 hours
6000 S. Central/
2700 West Baseline Road
08-06-09, 2115 hours
100 West Dobbins Road
Victims: 3 Hispanic Females ages, 15, 15, and 11-years-old
Suspect: Salvador Medina
H/M 29-years-old
Charges:
Multiple Counts of Kidnapping
Multiple Counts of Sexual Assault
Aggravated Assault
Armed Robbery
On August 6th, 2009, at approximately 9:00 a.m., Salvador Medina was released from the Arizona Department of Corrections after serving a sentence for Sexual Abuse/Dangerous Crime Against Children. He was on parole and had a tracking bracelet on his ankle. However, at some point he removed the bracelet.
At approximately 4:00 p.m., three sisters, 15, 15, and 11-years-old were buying school clothes at 6000 S. Central. As they were getting into their car, Medina forced his way into the car and threatened to kill the girl driving, with a pair of scissors. Medina forced the girls to drive to the area of 27th Avenue and Baseline. He held the girls under the threat of killing the 11-year-old girl if any of them tried to escape. In the area of 27th Avenue and Baseline, both 15-year-old girls were sexually assaulted.
At about 9:00 p.m., nearly five hours after abducting the young victims, he forced them to drive back to 6000 S. Central where he let them go. The suspect vehicle was later found in the same parking lot.
At about 9:15 p.m., Medina approached two women with a 3-year-old child who were getting into a car in the area of 100 West Dobbins Road. He asked them for money and put a knife to the abdomen of one of the women when she refused. Seeing the child, Medina pulled the child from the car and threatened to take the child if he wasn’t given money and the car. Frantically, the woman gave him some money and pleaded to be let go. Medina took the money and left on foot.
Shortly after midnight, Medina called the police from a convenience market at 7th Avenue and Dobbins. He told the police someone was following him and he felt his life was in danger. The patrol officers from the South Mountain Precinct, who responded and contacted Medina, alertly observed that he matched the description of the suspect in the sexual assault and robbery.
Medina was detained and it was determined by detectives from the Family Investigations Bureau and the Violent Crimes Bureau of the Phoenix Police Department that Salvador Medina was the suspect in these two cases. He was subsequently booked into jail and charged with the listed charges.