Claim: Meet-up associated with dating website leads to rape in Toledo

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – A 37-year-old Toledo man is jailed after a woman who was contacted by him on a social media dating website told law enforcement that he lured her to his residence, assaulted her, dragged her into a bedroom and then raped her.

Deputies responded on Saturday to the report from a 41-year-old woman who had sought medical attention, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said that after investigating, deputies arrested Benjamin J. Breitenbach for second-degree rape and unlawful imprisonment.

Breen said the two communicated on the site Plenty of Fish and the occurrence took place on Saturday afternoon at the 200 block of Kangas Road in Toledo.

Breitenbach was booked into the Lewis County Jail. He is tentatively scheduled to be brought before a judge in Lewis County Superior Court this afternoon.

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