Crime & Safety

Novato Man Arrested for Alleged Rape

Followed a woman inside a business after hours and then attacked her, according to police

A 43-year-old Novato man was arrested on suspicion of rape Wednesday after police say he followed a woman and raped her Tuesday evening while she was at a janitorial job at a Sausalito business.

Reuben A. Flores was booked in Marin County Jail Wednesday morning and charged with rape, burglary, battery, false imprisonment and stalking, the Marin Independent Journal is reporting.

The victim is a 42-year-old Richmond woman who used to work with Flores.

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Sausalito police said Flores the woman inside a Sausalito business, struck her from behind, making her lose consciousness, according to the IJ. When the woman came to she realized she had been raped.


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