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SALT LAKE CITY — Multiple criminal charges have been filed against three people accused of kidnapping, drugging and sexually and physically assaulting a woman over an extended period of time after the woman refused sex.
Sergio Octavio Reynoso, 34, of Murray; Randee Anne Krukowsi, 28, of Salt Lake City; and Ryan James Crowther, 29, of Salt Lake City, were each charged last week in 3rd District Court with aggravated sexual assault, aggravated kidnaping, and object rape, first-degree felonies; aggravated assault, a second-degree felony; two counts of child endangerment, a third-degree felony; and two counts of committing a violent offense in the presence of a child, a class B misdemeanor.
In addition, Reynoso and Crowther were also each charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, a first-degree felony, and Reynoso is charged with an additional count of object rape, a first-degree felony.
On April 10, a 22-year-old woman went to a Salt Lake apartment, 1450 S. West Temple, where the three defendants and two children, both under the age of 10, were present. While the woman was there, Krukowski and Reynoso tried to get the woman to engage in sex, according to police, but she refused and tried to leave. That's when Krukowski blocked the door and kicked the woman, causing her to fall to the ground, the charging documents state.
The woman was then forced to go to a bedroom where Krukowski allegedly blocked the door again. When the woman did not sit down, "Krukowski snapped her fingers and Reynoso immediately grabbed (the woman) and forced her to sit," according to the charges. Krukowski then took out four Xanax pills from her pocket and told the woman to take them, police say, but the woman refused, saying the pills would "cause her to black out."
"Krukowski told (the woman) that if she didn't take the pills, Reynoso would do something very bad to her," the charging documents allege. Police say Reynoso then took a handgun out of his waistband and waived it around.
The woman told investigators that she "feared for her life" and took the pills "because she didn't want to die." The woman said she was "in and out of consciousness all night" and was sexually assaulted multiple times by Reynoso and Crowther, the charges say.
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Two men and a woman have been arrested and accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman over several days in Salt Lake City, according to police.At one point when she regained consciousness, she again tried to leave but Krukowski kicked her feet out from under her and told her "that she wasn't going anywhere," according to the charges.
At another point when she was conscious again, the woman told police she realized that Krukowski "had her by the hair and was cutting it." The woman "started crying and asked Kruskowski what she did to deserve this." Krukowski then "began repeatedly hitting and punching" the woman," the charges state. This was allegedly witnessed by one of the children in the house who screamed for Krukowski to stop.
Crowther later told police that when he woke up the next day, the woman was lying on the floor while Krukowski was trying to make her "look better," court documents say.
When the woman was finally able to leave, she called 911 and was taken to a local hospital to be treated for "severe injuries," according to a police booking affidavit. After seeing the woman at the hospital, police returned to the residence with a search warrant and reported seizing drugs, drug paraphernalia and other items of evidence.
Prosecutors have requested all three defendants be held in the Salt Lake County Jail without the possibility of posting bail pending trial.
