Allegheny County police took into custody three men after two teenage girls said that they were zip-tied, kept down, and raped at gunpoint over the weekend.
Andre Hines, 20, Dashawn Hines, 18, and Amaud Berry, 18, were arrested Sunday night after SWAT executed a nighttime search warrant as a precaution at a home on Castleview Drive in Kennedy Township, where the alleged sexual assaults took place.
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Court documents reveal that the incident started on Saturday night, when someone summoned an Uber for the girls. Police said that when they arrived, the females went upstairs to a bedroom and began using marijuana with the accused. One of the victims informed detectives that after smoking weed, she felt funny.
“The next thing she knew, she was being restrained with white plastic zip ties,” the criminal complaint stated.
The 14-year-old girl told police officers that Dashawn and Andre Hines kept her down with zip-tied hands and legs while Berry assaulted her. According to court filings, Berry then duct-taped the 16-year-old girl’s hands, held a gun to her head, and threatened to shoot her before molesting her.
Neighbors in Castleview Estates were heartbroken to learn about what reportedly happened just a few houses down.
“This is a quiet neighborhood. Everybody knows one another. We look out for one another, so definitely [it] is a little scary,” neighbor Rosalie Deter said.
“Probably about five or six people, it looked like, came out of that house and got into the back of the ambulance. Probably about 10 minutes after that, I heard what was kind of like a bullhorn saying ‘8 Castleview – come out’ or something like that,” neighbor Greg Marsinko said.
The teenage girls were sent to UPMC Children’s Hospital.
Each of the three males is charged with two dozen counts, including rape, unlawful restraint of a minor, false detention , indecent assault, sexual assault, and minor corruption. They’re being held at the Allegheny County Jail.
