[UC] WARNING - Date-Rape Drug Attack in Our Hood!!

[naomifior]

On Sunday night, a friend of mine had a date-rape drug slipped in her 
cranberry juice (plain cranberry juice!) at Gojo. It was the only thing 
she drank or ate while meeting with a female friend. When she left Gojo, 
her friend said she seemed fine, but by the time neighbors saw her 
stumbling up our street a few blocks away, she was in bad condition and 
could barely walk.

Neighbors witnessed an older African American man on a bicycle stop to 
"help" her to her porch stairs and proceeded to kiss and grope her. Some 
watchful neighbors knew this was NOT the type of person my friend, who 
is a well-put together young professional, would ever date (as he was 
much older and disheveled in appearance). Plus, she is not a big drinker 
so her coming home in this condition was unusual.

Neighbors went over to intervene as the unidentified man attempted to 
"help" my friend up and into her home using her keys. Fortunately, the 
neighbors insisted he leave, and locked my friend and her wallet (which 
was outside with the unknown man on her porch) in her home and made him 
leave.

When I got home about 15 mins later, I let myself into her house with 
another neighbor and found her passed out on the floor and quite 
incoherent – clearly drug induced, not alcohol related. We stayed with 
her off and on through much of the night until it looked like the drugs 
were wearing off.

During the evening, the unknown man had returned and was scoping out her 
house. We locked all her windows and doors and our watchful neighbors 
stayed out until very late to keep an eye on her house and her.

Monday evening he showed up on her front door again. Multiple neighbors 
called 911 but during the 15 mins it took for the cops to respond, 
neighbors had already chased him away.

Fortunately, she remembers nothing more than sitting down at Gojo, 
ordering a juice and a really annoying guy who sat to close to her and 
her friend. Her next memory is of us catching her off-guard while she 
was trying to get ready for work - we had let ourselves into her house 
again the next morning to make sure she was still ok.

She filed a police report and was told that she was not the only one to 
report this. So I'm putting this out there as a warning as he will 
probably try it again.

The best description we have of him is as follows: Black male, probably 
in his 50's, salt & pepper hair that's short but not well kept, 5' 9" - 
5' 10", medium build, on both nights he was wearing a dark red/maroon 
long-sleeve jacket/shirt. The first night, he was riding a bicycle 
(described as pink and too small for him) the second night he was on 
foot.

If it weren't for our diligent and proactive neighbors, this story would 
certainly have a much worse ending. EVERYONE, please be on the look out 
and keep a watch out for your female neighbors!