{"id":420857,"date":"2026-10-07T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420857\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:56:09","slug":"orlando-police-man-used-weapon-to-threaten-woman-in-sex-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420857\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando police: Man used weapon to threaten woman in sex attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791341769_994_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Brandon Hogan\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A man arrested Tuesday in Orlando is accused of sexual battery against a woman who told police he attacked her that morning after threatening her with a weapon.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Gervin Jawaski Lewis, 46, faces charges of armed sexual battery, armed robbery, false imprisonment, vehicle burglary, and hindering 911 communications.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Officers responded around 5:40 a.m. to the 600 block of W. Amelia Street, where the victim reported Lewis approached her, threatened her with a weapon and assaulted her, the Orlando Police Department said in a statement.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Lewis then ran away after the attack, the statement reads.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Detectives quickly identified a vehicle associated with the case and located Lewis, detaining him a short time later, police said, adding Lewis was also found to have an outstanding warrant out of Marion County.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">\u201cOur officers acted quickly and decisively to apprehend this dangerous individual,\u201d Orlando police Chief Eric Smith said in a statement. \u201cTheir investigative work and determination got him off our streets and demonstrate our commitment to providing the service our community deserves.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 A man arrested Tuesday in Orlando is accused of sexual battery against a woman who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14513,4206,44086,79899,2391,1224,139,141,140,1120,166155,11381,5956,1464,14081,166156,25411,192],"class_list":["post-420857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-armed-robbery","tag-block","tag-false-imprisonment","tag-lewis","tag-man","tag-officer","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police","tag-sexual-attack","tag-sexual-battery","tag-statement","tag-tuesday","tag-vehicle-burglary","tag-w-amelia-street","tag-weapon","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}