Man robs student at gunpoint

Technology gave the police an edge Monday when their search for an attempted rapist ended at a local fast food restaurant where the suspect was found with his victim's cell phone in his pocket.\nBurger King employee Raheem McMillan, 16, was arrested on charges of attempted rape with threat of use of deadly force, criminal deviate conduct, robbery, confinement and battery. Though he is a juvenile, McMillan was automatically waived to be tried in an adult court because of the severity of his crimes.\nA 20-year-old college student first reported the sexual assault and robbery at 10:30 a.m. from her apartment complex in the 1600 block of East Hillside Drive. She told police she had been moving out of her apartment when a man approached her near a dumpster in the parking lot of her residence.\nHolding a dark-colored semi-automatic handgun, the man demanded money from the woman. According to police reports, she told the robber she was just a "poor college student" and didn't have any money. At that point, the man forced her back into her apartment, forced her to take off all of her clothes and sexually assaulted her.\nThe victim told police she fought with the robber, struggling with him over the gun, and that he choked her almost to the point of unconsciousness. After assaulting her for a short period of time, the man took her cell phone, her only form of outside communication, and five dollars from her purse and fled the scene. The woman had to call 911 from the main office of her apartment complex, the report said.\nOfficers soon learned that a man matching the description of the robber had been seen catching a Yellow Cab in the 1700 block of East Hillside, where McMillan's mother lives. The police followed the suspect to a Burger King on Third Street.\nAs police stopped McMillan for questioning in the Burger King, the detective at the crime scene dialed the phone number of the stolen cell phone, in the hopes that it was still in the suspect's possession, according to the report.\nThe victim's phone rang from inside McMillan's pants pocket. Police immediately pounced upon the phone, answering it to confirm it was the victim's, and then arrested the employee before he could begin his shift at the restaurant.\nMcMillan was brought to the police station and, after giving "various stories and denials," said Detective Sgt. David Drake, admitted to sexually assaulting and robbing the woman. \nA police search of McMillan's mother's apartment yielded a BB gun replica of a semi-automatic handgun as well as shoes and a jacket that matched the description of the suspect's. \n"This is not your typical 16-year-old," Drake said.\nMcMillan is being held in the Monroe County Jail on a $500,000 bond.