The second of two men accused of robbing a woman last month was arrested Tuesday on an outstanding warrant.
According to an Odessa Police Department report, dispatchers received a 911 call from the Ramada Inn on East Highway 80 July 13.
When officers arrived, a badly beaten 19-year-old woman told officers she was inside her room when someone kept knocking on her door and she opened it, thinking it was a maid, the report stated.
Instead, it was two men, one of whom she’d met three days prior through a friend. The woman told officers they rushed into the room followed by three or four other men and demanded to know where the money was.
According to the report, one of the men tackled her to the ground, choked her with one arm and continuously punched her in the face while the others demanded to know where her money was.
The man she’d met earlier, whom she identified as Deijaqu Meekins, 26, grabbed her purse from her at one point and began rifling through it, the report stated.
She told officers she ended up feigning unconsciousness.
Officers observed fresh injuries on the woman consistent with her story, the report stated.
Eduardo Juarez, 42, who was identified as the man who tackled and assaulted the woman, was arrested on suspicion of burglary of a habitation with intentions of committing another felony on July 19. He remains in the Ector County jail on an $80,000 surety bond.
Meekins was arrested Tuesday on the same charge. He, too, remains in custody on an $80,000 surety bond.
If convicted, the men could face five years to life in prison.
