A 26-year-old man was ordered jailed in lieu of $1.5 million bail Monday after Annapolis police charged him with raping a teenager at a party early Sunday.
Police charged John Walter Jennings III of the 800 block of Carrollton Ave., Annapolis, with 11 counts. Court records say he is on probation for assaulting his fiancee and awaiting a court hearing in January for a possible probation violation.
On Sunday, Annapolis police were called to Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore about a rape. A 17-year-old said she was sexually assaulted between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. at a party in a home on Johnson Place in Annapolis.
A man the teen did not know - but whose nickname she was told was J-Dub - repeatedly asked her to "come upstairs with me," but she rejected his advances, according to charging documents. He forced her upstairs and into a second-floor bathroom, locking the door, she told police.
She was afraid for her life - court papers describe him as being more than twice her weight - and told him she could not have sex with him, according to the charging documents. He "told her not to scream or yell or he would kill her and her family, stating that he was a member of a gang," she told police, according to the statement of charges. After the assault, he blocked the door and took $45 from her purse, she told police.
According to court records, Jennings was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced in 2004 to serve 18 months in jail followed by five years of probation.
Jennings' fiancee obtained a peace order against him in April 2008, two days after police were called to her home for a report of Jennings' assaulting her during an argument, according to court records.
He was convicted of second-degree assault in the attack. He was sentenced to three years in jail, with most of that time suspended, and he was placed on 18 months' probation, court records say. In June 2008, he asked that the peace order be rescinded and the probation reconsidered, since the couple had reconciled.
However, his probation agent accused him in March 2009 of violating the terms of his release and using PCP.
