Key West has had this menace in the anchorage for 20+yrs, last month he was booked yet again into Monroe county jail on charges of kidnapping and rape.
Article from keynoter, local
key west fla paper as follows...
Police: Key West man raped, tried to kill woman on his liveaboard | FL Keys News
MARCH 08, 2017 1:14 PM
Police: Key West
liveaboard raped, tried to murder woman
BY GWEN FILOSA
gfilosa@keynoter.com
A Key West
liveaboard boater kidnapped, raped and tried to strangle a 27-year-old woman he invited to his
boat Sunday night, tormenting her for several hours and at one point throwing her
cell phone into the ocean, according to police reports.
Jeffrey Sundwall, 46, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, false imprisonment and sexual assault with a weapon or force on a victim 12 years old or older.
“She went unconscious twice and at one point begged the suspect not to kill her,” according to the arrest warrant. “The suspect told the victim if she struggled, she would die.”
Sundwall lives on a 34-foot
cabin trawler named Today in Key West Harbor near
Christmas Tree Island. He told detectives the woman consented to sex with him.
Friday, he remained locked up at the Stock Island Detention Center without bond, per the warrant.
The woman told police she was invited to the
boat, which Sundwall uses as a
water taxi to and from
Christmas Tree Island, also known as Wisteria Island and a haven for people who live on boats and the homeless.
Once on the boat, though, Sundwall came up behind her and put a “sexual restraint collar” around her neck and choked her with it until she
lost consciousness, according to Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Becky Herrin.
“She said she woke from unconsciousness to find him raping her,” Herrin said. “She said he put a gag in her mouth so she could not make
noise. She said he held her for hours and continued to torture her. At one point, she says she was begging for her life and he told her if she struggled she would die.”
She also said Sundwall forced her to smoke crack cocaine, the arrest warrant stated. The Keynoter does not name alleged victims of rape.
A witness told the Sheriff’s Office that Sundwall runs the
water taxi
service and he had called Sundwall for a ride to the island Monday morning, Herrin said.
“When Sundwall arrived to pick him up, the victim was with him,” Herrin said. “She told the witness she’d been raped and asked to use his
phone. She used the
phone to call the Key West Police Department for help.”
When Key West police arrived, both the victim and Sundwall were there. Sundwall allegedly possessed crack cocaine so he was arrested by and booked for possession of the illegal drug.
The Sheriff’s Office has jurisdiction over the harbor so detectives from that agency’s Major Crimes Unit responded. Their investigation produced a warrant for Sundwall’s arrest Wednesday.