A year-old is charged with raping a man in St. Paul he met on a dating app, after displaying weapons and getting him to consume a drink that caused him to black out, according to criminal charges. John Henry McCaster, of St. He has not been charged in those cases, and Minnesota court records do not show past convictions for sexual assault. Investigators are looking into whether there are other victims and asking them to come forward.
Police responded to a report of a motor vehicle theft the night of Dec. The man said he met McCaster through the dating app Grindr and they were communicating for several days before meeting on Dec.
He went to a Greenbrier Street address where McCaster rented a room. He said McCaster quickly ushered him into his room, pulled a handgun out of his waistband and set it on a table next to a large knife. McCaster used the knife to lock the door from the inside, so no one could get in. Police had already arrested McCaster about two hours before the man called police on Dec. He was picked up on suspicion of drug possession methamphetamine and possessing a gun he was prohibited after having been convicted of a crime of violence.
He said they had consensual sex. Paul police received another report last year from a man who said McCaster met him on the Gridr app, produced a gun and sexually assaulted him, the complaint said. That case remains under investigation, Gerhardstein said. Minneapolis police received reports in that McCaster sexually assaulted a transgender person and drugged and sexually assaulted a man he met on Grindr in another case.
There were no arrests or charges in either case, according to Minneapolis police. In , St. Paul police received a report that McCaster beat and sexually assaulted a woman he knew. McCaster has been held in the Hennepin County jail since his earlier arrest; he has an active case of illegal firearm possession in Plymouth. McCaster has past felony convictions for violating an order for protection and drug possession.
