Pittsburgh police have charged a man with raping a woman in a South Side parking lot earlier this month.
Officers filed charges Monday against Larry Pappy Johnson, 37, of Pittsburgh’s Allentown neighborhood.
Johnson was not in custody as of late Wednesday afternoon, according to online court records.
Police said Johnson also stole the woman’s purse and watch before leaving her naked and motionless on the ground in the lot at South 14th Street in the South Side Flats neighborhood.
The woman told police she went out alone on Aug. 7 to Capo’s bar at East Carson and South 14th streets and became intoxicated.
After ordering a 52-ounce “fishbowl” drink called “jungle punch,” the woman said she drank about half and felt “more intoxicated” than she had in the past when she had ordered it.
The next thing she remembered, she told police, was waking up at UPMC Mercy the next morning. She was missing her phone, keys, purse and Apple Watch.
The woman had been taken to the hospital after she was found naked and unconscious in a business’s parking lot across Carson and partway down South 14th Street from Capo’s, the complaint said. Police had been called around 3:30 a.m. for a report of a possibly intoxicated person.
When police arrived, according to the criminal complaint, officers speaking to the woman said she had been dragged there by a man and that they were concerned she had been assaulted.
When asked if anything happened, the woman said she could not remember. She was then asked if she was too intoxicated to give consent for sex, and she said yes, police said.
The investigator was then able to use city surveillance cameras to track what had occurred.
According to the cameras, the complaint said, the woman was seen standing with a man wearing a white tank top, red unzipped sweatshirt and red shorts that morning. The complaint did not specify where they were seen together. Police said they later identified him as Johnson
The footage then showed the man picking the woman up from the waist and carrying her limp body to a corner of the parking lot before sexually assaulting her, the complaint said.
Another camera then showed Johnson walking away and leaving the woman motionless on the ground, the complaint continued. When Johnson left, he had the woman’s yellow purse around his neck, police said.
According to the complaint, after the woman was released from UPMC Mercy, she returned to the South Side where her vehicle was parked and used her laptop, which was inside her car, to use the Find My app to locate her cell phone and Apple Watch.
They pinged to a house on Excelsior Street in Allentown, police said.
The woman called 911 from an acquaintance’s phone and asked for an officer to help her retrieve her belongings. At the Excelsior Street house, the complaint said, the officer knocked on the door, and a man inside said he didn’t know anything about the missing items.
But, the complaint continued, three children playing on the porch told the woman they thought their uncle had her belongings. She then knocked again, and that man returned her phone, watch, wallet and keys — though not her purse, police said.
“After getting her belongings back, Jane Doe stated that the male told her to ‘put my number in your phone if you need anything,’ to which she did,” the complaint said.
He provided his cell phone number, which traced back to Johnson, police said.
It was not clear from the complaint why police did not do anything at that point.
Police charged Johnson with rape, sexual assault, robbery, false imprisonment, indecent assault, indecent exposure and summary harassment.
Johnson has previous convictions for criminal solicitation, theft, aggravated assault, drug possession and disorderly conduct.