By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A MAN who was on the run for more than five years was remanded to prison yesterday over the alleged rape of a young woman in her home in 2020.
Prosecutors allege that Tomal Bowe, 30, broke into the home of a 23-year-old woman on Marshall Road West and raped her at gunpoint at about 3am on January 14, 2020.
During the same incident, Bowe allegedly robbed the woman of two pairs of tennis shoes and a Nike hat, and also stole her father’s 2014 Ford F150 truck and a gold Michael Kors watch.
Bowe is also accused of conspiring with others to commit an armed robbery and was allegedly found with $1,500 belonging to Aliv that was reasonably suspected to be stolen on January 3, 2020.
He is further accused of conspiring with others to commit armed robbery on November 17, 2019, in connection with the armed robbery of a Rubis service station on Prince Charles Drive.
Bowe allegedly escaped custody from the Carmichael Road Police Station on March 1, 2020.
Last December, he was arrested by US authorities in St Johns County, Florida, after allegedly fleeing a routine traffic stop.
Reports in Florida said he has been charged with felony fleeing and eluding, grand theft auto, resisting without violence, possession of marijuana under 20 grams, and additional out-of-county warrants.
While Bowe pleaded not guilty to escape before acting Chief Magistrate Ancella Evans, he was not required to enter a plea to charges of rape, burglary, two counts of armed robbery, and two counts of conspiracy to commit armed robbery.
Those matters will proceed to the Supreme Court by way of a voluntary bill of indictment. He was informed of his right to apply for bail in the higher court.
Bowe was remanded to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services until June 25. His escape trial is set for July 26.
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