A Kentucky college student was drugged and raped in Tenneessee, where her debit card was later used at Waffle House, authorities said, identifying two men for their alleged involvement in the incident.
Metro Nashville Police Department (MPD) officials have indicated that Joseph Farmer, 36, and Trevor Casteel, 27, of Chattanooga, are the prime suspects in the rape and fraud of the student, Fox News reported.
The 18-year-old victim, whose identity has not been released, told investigators that he believes she was drugged at a popular Honky Tonk Central music bar on Nashville’s Broadway on May 4, authorities said.
The woman noted that she remembered the suspects sexually assaulting her and driving her around in a Jeep Grand Cherokee. They also used her debit card at an ATM.
The suspects then allowed the victim to use her phone to coordinate a delivery location at a McDonald’s, where her friend picked her up, without even seeing the suspects, the reports said.
After what happened, the victim filed a report with MPD’s Special Victims Unit the next day, police said.
During their search for the suspects, officers discovered they both had three warrants for their arrest for unrelated crimes involving a narcotics transaction, police said.
Farmer has been the only one arrested of the two without the right to bail, since Casteel has remained a fugitive until Tuesday
Both are charged with aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, five counts of fraud and credit card theft. Additionally, Farmer faces two counts of drug possession.
So far, the photos of the two suspects were not available.