Crime & Safety
Bay Area Toll Collector Arrested on Rape Charges
Johnie Milton Burton, from Vallejo, was arrested while trying to leave his home.
By Bay City News Service
A Vallejo man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of raping a woman after terrorizing her with a pellet gun earlier this month, a police lieutenant said.
Johnie Milton Burton, 30, was arrested as he was leaving his home
located near where the sexual assault was reported, Lt. Jim O'Connell said.
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The victim had been walking in the 600 block of Laurel Street on Sept. 10 around 12:50 a.m. when a man approached her from behind and covered her mouth and nose, O'Connell said.
The suspect carried her to on a walkway connecting Laurel and Russell streets, threatened her with a semi-automatic handgun and threatened to shoot her before sexually assaulting her, O'Connell said.
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Police found a semi-automatic pellet gun during a search of Burton's home, O'Connell said. Vallejo police said that the victim identified Burton as the attacker.
Burton is a toll collector at a Bay Area bridge, O'Connell said.
He was booked into the Solano County jail for rape by force, sodomy by force, kidnapping, terrorist threats and exhibiting a weapon, police said.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Detective Raul Munoz at (707) 648-4524.
