Suspect faces unrelated charge

A probable cause affidavit filed by the Bloomington Police Department Thursday claims Uriah Clouse raped a Bloomington female May 21, 2001 and then continued to harass her, eventually violating a protective order early June 2001.\nIn April 2002, investigators in the Jill Behrman case named Clouse as one of the suspects in the case. BPD Detective Marty Deckard said in an IDS article from April 2002 that "Uriah is a suspect, as are several others, based on having an alibi that doesn't stick." At the same time, Brown County Prosecutor Jim Oliver encouraged a bond motion filed April 5 to raise Clouse's bond on charges unrelated to the Behrman investigation based upon FBI information and Clouse's criminal record.\n"The (FBI) agent told me that his sources said Clouse was threatening to kill people involved in the Behrman investigation," Oliver said in a previous IDS article. No charges have been filed against Clouse in the Behrman investigation.\nBehrman disappeared May 31, 2000 while on a bicycle ride. Her bike was found later that day. This September, investigators drained a portion of Salt Creek in search of her body. Due to weather conditions, the creek investigation came to a halt. Investigators will be sending the case to the Monroe County Prosecutor Carl Salzmann by the end of the month, Deckard said.\nAccording to the probable cause affidavit, in May of 2001 Clouse struck up a relationship with the rape victim. The affidavit says that on May 21 in the early morning hours Clouse arrived at the victim's apartment where another female was also present. Later that morning, the acquaintance left, leaving Clouse and the victim alone. Minutes after the friend left, Clouse allegedly proceeded to grab the woman, eventually pinning her on the couch and raping her.\nFive days later, according to the probable cause affidavit, Clouse returned to the victim's apartment where he attempted to force himself upon her again. The victim's acquaintances deterred Clouse from any further harm on the victim.\nIt was not until after the victim knew that Clouse was incarcerated in the Brown County Jail that she came forward with her report.\nAt press time, no known date had been set for a pleading hearing in the rape allegation. If Clouse is convicted, he could receive anywhere from six to 20 years in jail.\nBut this won't be Clouse's first time through the justice system. He has a long history of charges and trials for various crimes. \nIn a Brown County court Thur-sday, Clouse was found guilty of disorderly conduct and had a hung jury on a battery charge stemming from an earlier incident where Clouse allegedly beat up another inmate at the Brown County Jail. His sentence hearing for the case is October 25, where he could receive a maximum of 180 days in jail, Oliver said.\nSince October 1993, Clouse's record includes a conviction of a delinquency petition alleging felony battery, a conviction on a rape charge which was overturned 18 months later, numerous dismissed public intoxication charges, guilty pleas for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, operating a vehicle over the legal .10 Blood Alcohol Content, resisting law enforcement and failure to carry insurance.