Salina Post

SALINA — A 25-year-old Salina man has been jailed after he allegedly raped a woman at her home early Friday morning, and then grabbed cash out of the register of a convenience store early Saturday morning.

Salina Police Capt. Mike Sweeney said Shaundrick Staten is accused of raping and robbing a 38-year-old Salina woman after giving her a ride home from a convenience store just after midnight early Friday

The woman, who reportedly knew Staten as a casual acquaintance, accepted the ride home. Sweeney said Staten asked if he could use the bathroom and, when the woman agreed, he displayed a sawed-off shotgun, told the woman to be quiet and then sexually assaulted her. Before leaving, Staten allegedly took the woman’s wallet, cellphone and some prescription medication.

At approximately 3:45 a.m. Saturday, Staten then allegedly went into the Casey’s convenience store at Ninth and Crawford, bought a pack of cigarettes, then used a prepaid cash card to buy fuel for a Dodge Durango he was driving. He went back inside the store, and while the clerk was counting cash at the register allegedly grabbed the money, ran out of the store and then drove away east on Crawford.

After reviewing security video, police went to an apartment at 500 E. Crawford and found Staten. They also reported finding cash, a sawed-off shotgun and the prescription medication taken from the woman who had been raped the night before.

Staten was booked into the Saline County jail in connection with the rape of the woman and robbery of the convenience store.

He was also charged with taking a cellphone and headset from a Salina man in February, and threatening that same man with a handgun and demanding money on April 26.