SUNRISE, Fla. – A Sunrise man convicted of sexual assault in Wyoming struck again, according to police — this time, they say, at a South Florida laundromat.
That Feb. 25, 2014 conviction, for third-degree sexual assault in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, landed Marquise Perry Grant on Florida’s sex offender list, according to online records.
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Police said Grant, 34, went into Sudzies of Sunrise, located at 6165 W. Sunrise Blvd., on Monday and saw the victim.
A Sunrise Police Department arrest report states that Grant went into the bathroom, got a “shotgun-style pellet gun out of a large duffle bag,” came out and pointed it at the woman, demanding she leave the business.
The woman, in fear for her life, complied, police said. The report doesn’t state whether she knew Grant prior to the incident.
She asked several times if she could gather her belongings and leave in her car, but Grant “grabbed onto” her and escorted her into a “dark alleyway” on the west side of the business, where he began to rape her, the report states.
The report states that a Sunrise police officer who arrived at the scene saw Grant “still mounted on top of (the victim) in the alleyway” with his “sexual organs exposed.”
Grant took off but police chased him down and took him into custody, it states. Police said it was “apparent,” based on evidence recovered at the scene, that a “struggle ensued” during the assault.
As of Tuesday, Grant was being held without bond in the Broward Main Jail on charges of armed sexual battery, kidnapping to facilitate the commission of a felony, committing a first-degree felony with a weapon and resisting arrest.