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TWENTYNINE PALMS MAN ACCUSED OF RAPING UNCONSCIOUS WOMAN

A Twentynine Palms Marine was arrested Tuesday, accused of raping an unconscious woman. According to a Sheriff’s report, on June 9, 2019, a group of Marines and civilians had gathered at a home in the 69200 block of Cactus Drive in Twentynine Palms, where they drank alcohol and spent the night. In the early morning hours, a witness saw Juan Cruz-Cornejo, 23, a lance corporal in the Marine Corps, engaged in a sex act with the woman. Cruz-Cornejo fled the scene before deputies arrived and they were unable to locate him. On Tuesday, Detective Benjamin Henry was notified that Cruz-Cornejo had turned himself in at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in Oceanside. Juan Cruz-Cornejo was arrested for investigation of rape of an unconscious person, booked into the Central Detention Center, with his bail set at $200,000.

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