OAKLAND \u2014 A local man who served 14 years in prison for rape is in trouble again, this time for allegedly attacking women in two separate incidents in September, court records show.<\/p>\n
Gregory Mars, 45, was paroled from New Folsom prison in Represa last March, but has fared \u201cacutely poor\u201d since then, according to court papers filed by his parole officer. Now he faces two sets of charges \u2014 one alleging he violated parole by, among other things, falsely imprisoning a sex worker in his car on Sept. 11. The other accuses him of assault with a knife for allegedly attacking two women on Sept. 29.<\/p>\n
In the Sept. 11 incident, police say a 23-year-old woman was being attacked by other suspected sex workers and went with Mars after a friend suggested it. She said she ignored an easy feeling and got into his car, only for him to hit her in the face approximately five times and scream, \u201cI\u2019m not letting you out, b\u2014-.\u201d The woman was able to open the door and began screaming for help, authorities said in court filings.<\/p>\n
In the Sept. 29 incident, one of the victims testified that she was walking with her 10-year-old son and her friend when Mars allegedly called the boy a \u201cfat a\u2013.\u201d This sparked a confrontation, she said, and her friend pulled out pepper spray. She said during the confrontation, Mars knocked her down and stabbed her in the shoulder. She said she heard her son say, \u201cMom he has a knife\u201d right before feeling the blade.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe stabbed me down to the ground,\u201d the woman testified. \u201cI thought he had hit me, and then as I seen the red end of the knife, he was going up towards, like, my neck area, and I, like, gagged, and I was like, \u2018Stop, stop, stop, please,\u2019 and I don\u2019t know where he went after that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman also admitted she blamed her friend for failing to de-escalate the situation and introducing pepper spray to the confrontation.<\/p>\n
Mars was convicted in 2009 of rape, sentenced to 14 years in prison, and required to register as a sex offender, court records show. In that case, he allegedly told his victim that he was \u201ca pimp\u201d and then dragged her into his car, where he choked and sexually assaulted her, according to a probation report.<\/p>\n
In August, he was arrested in connection with a stabbing but never charged. He reportedly told his arresting officer that he was innocent and security camera footage would prove it, court records show. When police arrested him in connection with the Sept. 29 stabbing, he was in a car with a man on parole for manslaughter from a 2012 fatal shooting in Oakland. Police say they seized a box of unopened condoms and counterfeit currency during the arrest.<\/p>\n
Mars is being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin without bail and is next due in court for a bond hearing on Nov. 13, records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A local man who served 14 years in prison for rape is in trouble again, this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,862,143,22621,863,145,144,47339,15370],"class_list":["post-519857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-attack","tag-oakland-crime","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-rape","tag-oakland-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}