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2025-02-10 08:05:37 UTC
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David Baker
A Daytona Beach man with an extensive criminal record was arrested Saturday after a victim reported he forced her into the back seat of a car at gunpoint and raped her, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.
Law enforcement responded to the Motel 6 on West International Speedway Boulevard around 4:30 a.m. and a quick investigation led to Baker's arrest 30 minutes later, deputies said.
Baker, 42, was arrested and charged with armed robbery, theft, and possession of cocaine. Additional charges are pending the results of DNA testing, the sheriff's office said. Baker was in the Volusia County Branch Jail on Monday without bail.
Baker, who has had multiple run-ins with the law, took a cell phone call while sexually battering the woman, the sheriff's report said. Florida Department of Corrections records show he spent five years in prison and was released on Feb. 28, 2023.
The victim told deputies she was alone in a vehicle outside the motel while her friends were inside when Baker approached the vehicle, pulled a handgun, and forced her into the back seat. Baker took the victim's cell phones, and $15 in cash and ran from the scene, investigators said.
He was found just before 5 a.m. at a nearby Days Inn. A sheriff's report said Baker was homeless and living at the Day's Inn with his girlfriend who deputies spoke with. The victim identified Baker in a photo, deputies said.
The victim's cell phones were found in Baker's room. A pellet gun was also located.
Baker has a long criminal history dating back to 2008. Florida Department of Corrections records state Baker spent five years in prison for offenses committed in 2018 including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, and introducing contraband into a detention facility.
Daytona Beach police arrest reports in 2018 for Baker show he jumped out of the bushes at Jesse and Magnolia streets on Aug. 26 and attacked his former girlfriend's brother. He pulled out a knife and tried to stab the victim who covered his face with his hands and got cut in the hand.
When the victim mentioned Baker's name, police noted in the report they were familiar with him.
"Officers on scene were familiar with (Baker's) name and information due to recent violent activity involving (Baker) as a suspect attacking the (victim's) sister," police wrote in the 2018 report.
Police had also previously arrested Baker on Aug, 11 for threatening to shoot another girlfriend and her children. Baker got angry with the woman after she asked him to stop using drugs in front of her children in her home, police said.
While working the Aug. 11 case, Daytona Beach police said they discovered Baker had 22 felony convictions.
https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2024/12/16/woman-raped-in-car-outside-florida-hotel/77021749007/