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Pair charged in robberies, assaults
Ernest Joseph Fontenot and Carlos Alberto Mendez
A 33-year-old man who police say used disgusting, deviant sexual attacks to subdue his victims before robbing them</span> was in jail Friday, as was his accused accomplice.
Ernest Joseph Fontenot, 33, of the 9900 block of Algiers, is charged with two counts of aggravated robbery and one count each of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault.
Carlos Alberto Mendez, 20, of the 4500 b
lock of Palo Pinto, is charged with two counts of aggravated robbery and one count each of aggravated kidnapping and possession of a controlled substance. He remained jailed Friday in lieu
of bail totaling $95,000.
The two were charged in four incidents, Jan. 21, 27 and 30, and Feb. 4, said Houston Police Department sex crimes division Sgt. Paul Follis. In those incidents, four people, three women and a man, were sexually assaulted and robbed, police said.
The two are suspects in similar attacks on two other women and two other men, and in as many as 16 cases in which victims were robbed, police said, with cases dating back to June.
Sex crimes investigator Julie Hardin said investigators who had seen similarities in the attacks got their first solid lead last week, when records of the victims' stolen cell phones showed each had been used, after it was stolen, to call a number belonging to Mendez.
Mendez was arrested last week where he worked as a bulldozer
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iver, Follis said, and was cooperative, giving police detailed statements about the attack and identifying Fontenot.
According to Mendez, Hardin said, Fontenot targeted and attacked victims as they le
ft their vehicles to go into their homes. With a gun to the victim's head, Fontenot would order the victim to undress, Hardin said.
Fontenot would then sexually assault his victims, Hardin said, adding that some "were so deviant and so disgusting ... that's how we knew they were related. He had some fascinations I can't go into now."
"If his body didn't work, he would use various objects" to assault his victims, Hardin said of Fontenot, adding that in some cases two victims were forced to perform sex acts with one another while Fontenot watched.
The attacks were so terrifying, Hardin said, Fontenot had no trouble getting his victims to give him their debit ca
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9; PINs.
Fontenot would then call Mendez from his victim's cell phone, she said, and the two would work through the night using the victims' credit and debit cards to buy items.
Some items, such as expensive electronics, the pair would later sell or pawn for cash, Hardin said. The two also used stolen
cards to buy baby items --both suspects have wives who are pregnant.
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Pair charged in robberies, assaults
Ernest Joseph Fontenot and Carlos Alberto Mendez
A 33-year-old man who police say used disgusting, deviant sexual attacks to subdue his victims before robbing them</span> was in jail Friday, as was his accused accomplice.
Ernest Joseph Fontenot, 33, of the 9900 block of Algiers, is charged with two counts of aggravated robbery and one count each of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault.
Carlos Alberto Mendez, 20, of the 4500 b
lock of Palo Pinto, is charged with two counts of aggravated robbery and one count each of aggravated kidnapping and possession of a controlled substance. He remained jailed Friday in lieu
of bail totaling $95,000.
The two were charged in four incidents, Jan. 21, 27 and 30, and Feb. 4, said Houston Police Department sex crimes division Sgt. Paul Follis. In those incidents, four people, three women and a man, were sexually assaulted and robbed, police said.
The two are suspects in similar attacks on two other women and two other men, and in as many as 16 cases in which victims were robbed, police said, with cases dating back to June.
Sex crimes investigator Julie Hardin said investigators who had seen similarities in the attacks got their first solid lead last week, when records of the victims' stolen cell phones showed each had been used, after it was stolen, to call a number belonging to Mendez.
Mendez was arrested last week where he worked as a bulldozer
dr
iver, Follis said, and was cooperative, giving police detailed statements about the attack and identifying Fontenot.
According to Mendez, Hardin said, Fontenot targeted and attacked victims as they le
ft their vehicles to go into their homes. With a gun to the victim's head, Fontenot would order the victim to undress, Hardin said.
Fontenot would then sexually assault his victims, Hardin said, adding that some "were so deviant and so disgusting ... that's how we knew they were related. He had some fascinations I can't go into now."
"If his body didn't work, he would use various objects" to assault his victims, Hardin said of Fontenot, adding that in some cases two victims were forced to perform sex acts with one another while Fontenot watched.
The attacks were so terrifying, Hardin said, Fontenot had no trouble getting his victims to give him their debit ca
rds
9; PINs.
Fontenot would then call Mendez from his victim's cell phone, she said, and the two would work through the night using the victims' credit and debit cards to buy items.
Some items, such as expensive electronics, the pair would later sell or pawn for cash, Hardin said. The two also used stolen
cards to buy baby items --both suspects have wives who are pregnant.
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