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TELL CITY - A door-to-door salesman peddling magazine subscriptions remains lodged in the Perry County Jail after allegedly attempting to rape a woman who allowed the 23-year-old into her Tell City apartment Friday.
Joey A. Evans, who gave police an address of 348 Bluebird Lane, Section, Ala., faces charges of attempted rape, criminal confinement, battery and sexual battery. If convicted of the Class B felony charge of attempted rape, he faces up to 20 years in prison.
In a probable-cause hearing Monday, Circuit Court Judge James McEntarfer ordered Evans held on a $100,000 surety or $10,000 cash bond.
Tell City Police Chief David Faulkenberg said Evans - who was working for Vero Beach, Fla.-based United Subscription Agency and was part of a sales crew canvassing Tell City - knocked on the woman's front door in the Spring Hill Apartment complex around 12:30 p.m. After showing her a photo-identification card, Evans was allowed to enter the apartment and began explaining subscription offers to the woman, who according to a police affidavit, was at home alone with her infant child.
According to the affidavit, signed by Tell City officer Jeff Bender, Evans' conversation with the woman moved from subscription offers to personal and, eventually, sexually explicit questions. The woman, who police said is in her 20s, asked Evans to leave, but he allegedly refused.
When the woman reached for the child, who was crawling near the sofa on which she and Evans were seated, Evans allegedly grabbed the woman by the hair and pushed her face-down onto the floor. Police said he banged the woman's head against the floor when she again reached for the baby.
Evans then flipped the woman on her back, striking her face with his elbow, the affidavit alleges, and then tried to unbutton her pants and forcibly kiss her.
At one point while he had the woman pinned down, Evans allegedly bragged about his good looks. "Who wouldn't want somebody who looks like me?" he allegedly asked.
The woman responded, the affidavit reports, by striking Evans in the groin with her knee and then grabbing and twisting his testicles through his pants. That, police said, caused Evans to flee and the woman then called police.
Officers dispatched a description of the attacker began searching the area. A short time later, Tell City patrolman Greg Linne caught sight of and then detained Evans on foot in the 1000 block of 19th Street.
Faulkenberg said the woman, who was not seriously injured but had visible red marks to her face and neck, later identified Evans as her attacker. He was questioned at the city's police department and then jailed.
No Money for an Attorney
During Monday's afternoon hearing, Evans shook his head repeatedly as he read the affidavit handed him by sheriff's deputy Kenny Kellems. At Evans' request, McEntarfer appointed the Tell City law firm of Huber and Goffinet to represent him at county expense. Evans held his handcuffed wrists aloft as he was placed under oath and testified that he earned, at most, $15,000 a year in commissions from his job and could not afford to hire an attorney.
Evans said he traveled from place to place and kept in contact with friends, to whom he had his mail forwarded.
The magazine-subscription company Evans was working for had not applied for a city permit required of firms or individuals conducting door-to-door sales. Tell City Clerk-Treasurer Barbara Ewing confirmed Tuesday that her office had issued no permits to the firm.
Faulkenberg said Evans' co-workers, who had also been selling magazines in the area, had likely moved on. "I suspect they've packed up and left," he said Monday.
A call to United Subscription's Florida office went unanswered Tuesday afternoon and an e-mail from The News seeking to learn how long Evans had been with the company was not immediately returned.
An Ongoing Investigation
The investigation into the alleged attack is continuing and Faulkenberg said officers would like to speak to others who may have come into contact with Evans. "Anyone who might have seen something or heard (Evans) say anything inappropriate, we'd like to talk to," he said. Anyone with information can contact police at 547-7068.
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