Saturday, September 23, 2000
Bond Hill man charged in rapes, kidnappings
By Jane Prendergast
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati police believe their arrest of a man accused of rape and kidnapping stopped what might have been a string of sexual attacks on women.
Cooperation among officers, a secretary and a fugitive task force led to the arrest of John Barnes, a Bond Hill man accused of two rapes, two kidnappings and an abduction.
John Barnes
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He pretended to be a bootleg cab driver, investigators said, offering women rides but instead taking them to a loading dock behind Frisch's commissary in Walnut Hills.
He raped two of them, police said, and attempted to attack two more.
The first attack police know about happened in July, but police are having trouble getting that victim to cooperate, said Detective Steve Ventre, an investigator in the Cincinnati Police Division's personal crimes unit.
The assaults for which Mr. Barnes is charged happened in late August and early this month. Two of the victims were able to give police the car's license plate number.
The cases came together when a secretary in the personal crimes unit noticed that Detective Ventre and another investigator from the homicide unit, Detective James Englehardt, were researching the same name — John Barnes.
They started working together and showed the victims a lineup of pictures. All of them picked Mr. Barnes immediately, Detective Ventre said.
The detective on Wednesday morning asked the Violent Crimes Task Force for help finding Mr. Barnes. They found him within hours.
Mr. Barnes, 43, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Norwood, where he had just started a job. He remained jailed Friday.
Anyone with information about Mr. Barnes should call the personal crimes unit at 352-6474.
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