Post by elir on Jan 22, 2020 0:19:39 GMT
I am posting this because Kelsi German has commented on twitter that she is aware of this case..
The guy is from Lafayette, only 18 miles away from Delphi, he is a suspect in multiple rapes in the Lafayette area,
He was just indicted in the Florida Keys on a gun charge
Go to the link so you can see his photo - he does resemble BG.
By David Goodhue, Miami Herald
January 17, 2020 03:58 PM
They met on Facebook through their enthusiasm for cars. They’ve been corresponding on and off for two years.
One man is from Indiana, the other lives in Tennessee.
One man is from Indiana, the other lives in Tennessee.
Martin, according to police reports, told Wilhelm to stop by his house on his way through the state, saying it would be a great excuse for the men to finally meet in person.
In September, Jason Wilhelm, 42, told Jonathan Martin that he was planning to leave Lafayette, Indiana, and drive to the Florida Keys. He said he would be traveling through Tennessee.
Wilhelm took him up on the offer, and his stay in Putnam County, Tennessee, set in motion a chain of events that ended up with a federal grand jury indictment this week, as well as questions about a series of rapes committed in his hometown.
Soon after Wilhelm arrived, Martin was dosed with a “date rape” type of drug, and when he woke up the next day, Wilhelm was gone — and so were several guns belonging to Martin, according to a report from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee.
The report did not state the exact number of stolen guns.
On Nov. 1, Monroe County sheriff’s deputies arrested Wilhelm on charges of falsifying his identity to pawn a gun, entering the Keys without registering as a convicted felon and possessing ammunition as a convicted felon.
More charges were added three days later while he was locked up in the Stock Island jail, including two felony counts of using another person’s identity to obtain money. Details about those charges were not immediately available.
The sheriff’s office is holding him on a combined bond of $125,000. Adding to his legal woes, a federal grand jury Thursday indicted Wilhelm on possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years on the federal count.
According to the Putnam sheriff’s office report, Wilhelm has an extensive criminal history, and when he left for the Keys, he was out on bond on a charge that he’d pushed a pregnant woman down a flight of stairs.
Police in Lafayette told their Putnam County colleagues that Wilhelm is a suspect in “multiple rapes” in the area, and those women were raped after being given the same type of drug that knocked Martin out before his guns were stolen, according to an Oct. 13 email from Tennessee police to a Monroe County detective.
“He was also known to deal in illegal drugs,” Putnam Detective Craig Capps wrote in the email.
Lafayette police did not immediately return requests for comment on the rape cases.
A Key Largo woman told deputies on Oct. 5 that she had just kicked Wilhelm out of her house on First Court after meeting him 10 days earlier. She said when he left, he was carrying two rifles, an AK-47 and an AR-15, Deputy Max Antoine wrote in his report.
The woman told the deputy that Wilhelm pawned the weapons.
Deputies went to the Coral Financial Pawn Shop in Key Largo on Oct. 9, and the serial number of one of the pistols there, a .380 Kimber Micro Carry, matched that of one of the guns stolen from Martin’s home in Tennessee, according to Antoine’s report.
A pawnshop employee picked Wilhelm’s photo out of a lineup, deputies said. It was not immediately clear from available police and court records what happened to the other guns Martin reported stolen.
In September, Jason Wilhelm, 42, told Jonathan Martin that he was planning to leave Lafayette, Indiana, and drive to the Florida Keys. He said he would be traveling through Tennessee.
Wilhelm took him up on the offer, and his stay in Putnam County, Tennessee, set in motion a chain of events that ended up with a federal grand jury indictment this week, as well as questions about a series of rapes committed in his hometown.
Soon after Wilhelm arrived, Martin was dosed with a “date rape” type of drug, and when he woke up the next day, Wilhelm was gone — and so were several guns belonging to Martin, according to a report from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee.
The report did not state the exact number of stolen guns.
On Nov. 1, Monroe County sheriff’s deputies arrested Wilhelm on charges of falsifying his identity to pawn a gun, entering the Keys without registering as a convicted felon and possessing ammunition as a convicted felon.
More charges were added three days later while he was locked up in the Stock Island jail, including two felony counts of using another person’s identity to obtain money. Details about those charges were not immediately available.
The sheriff’s office is holding him on a combined bond of $125,000. Adding to his legal woes, a federal grand jury Thursday indicted Wilhelm on possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years on the federal count.
According to the Putnam sheriff’s office report, Wilhelm has an extensive criminal history, and when he left for the Keys, he was out on bond on a charge that he’d pushed a pregnant woman down a flight of stairs.
Police in Lafayette told their Putnam County colleagues that Wilhelm is a suspect in “multiple rapes” in the area, and those women were raped after being given the same type of drug that knocked Martin out before his guns were stolen, according to an Oct. 13 email from Tennessee police to a Monroe County detective.
“He was also known to deal in illegal drugs,” Putnam Detective Craig Capps wrote in the email.
Lafayette police did not immediately return requests for comment on the rape cases.
A Key Largo woman told deputies on Oct. 5 that she had just kicked Wilhelm out of her house on First Court after meeting him 10 days earlier. She said when he left, he was carrying two rifles, an AK-47 and an AR-15, Deputy Max Antoine wrote in his report.
The woman told the deputy that Wilhelm pawned the weapons.
Deputies went to the Coral Financial Pawn Shop in Key Largo on Oct. 9, and the serial number of one of the pistols there, a .380 Kimber Micro Carry, matched that of one of the guns stolen from Martin’s home in Tennessee, according to Antoine’s report.
A pawnshop employee picked Wilhelm’s photo out of a lineup, deputies said. It was not immediately clear from available police and court records what happened to the other guns Martin reported stolen.
