Moosic police said Charles "Tiny" Bray asked a female friend for a ride early Thursday and, after she picked him up, proceeded to grab her by the throat, rape, stab and threaten to kill her and her family if she told anyone.
Police responded to Wilkes-Barre General Hospital to speak with a woman who said she'd been raped and stabbed by a Scranton man she called "Tiny," whom police later identified as Mr. Bray.
The Times-Tribune does not identify the victims of sexual assault.
The woman told police Mr. Bray, 42, 1840 N. Main Ave., called just after 12:30 a.m. while she was at a friend's house in Wilkes-Barre and asked her for a ride to his mother's in Scranton. On the way to the city, he told the woman to pull off Interstate 81 at the Moosic exit so he could pick up clothes from a friend's house.
Mr. Bray then directed the woman to an open lot near Moosic Heights Mobile Home Park. He got out of the vehicle, opened the rear driver's side door, put a knife to the woman's neck and strangled her by wrapping his hand around her neck, police said.
Mr. Bray told the woman, "If you do what I say, you won't get hurt," then instructed her to take her clothes off and get in the back of the car, according to the complaint.
The man then demanded the woman have sex with him, police said.
At one point, while she was being raped, the woman said Mr. Bray became very angry and stabbed her in the back, according to the complaint.
When she tried to move away, Mr. Bray told her to continue to do what he said and he wouldn't stab her any more, according to the complaint.
When the woman asked why Mr. Bray was doing this to her, she told police he said, "For three years I tried to be with you, but you blew me off, so it's your fault," then called her a "tease."
Mr. Bray proceeded to drive to the Sunoco gas station at 234 S. Main Ave. in Scranton, where he discarded the bloody knife into a flower pot, purchased $20 worth of gas, and bought an Arizona iced tea and asked for some napkins, which he put on the woman's wound, according to the complaint.
Mr. Bray drove the two back to Wilkes-Barre, where he pulled over on Loomis Street, got out of the vehicle and told the woman, "If you tell anyone, I will kill you, your family and kids," and said he had a gun, she told police.
The woman drove to the home of a friend, who took her to the hospital. She was later released after getting five staples in her back for her stab wound, according to the complaint.
A search of the vehicle the woman was driving revealed bloody napkins, a bloody blanket and blood-stained washcloths, police said. They also recovered the bloody knife from the gas station.
A police query into Mr. Bray revealed he'd been arrested in the region for drug-related charges and failure to comply with Megan's Law registration, and that he'd been previously arrested for rape in New York City.
Mr. Bray was charged with criminal attempt to commit homicide, rape, kidnapping, recklessly endangering another person, terroristic threats and related charges.
He was arrested Friday in Wilkes-Barre and taken to the Moosic police station. He was taken to the Lackawanna County Central Processing Center on Friday night, police said. Arraignment and bail information for Mr. Bray were unavailable Friday night.
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