A Blaine County man faces multiple felony charges for allegedly holding an 18-year-old woman against her will and raping and stabbing her south of Bellevue early Sunday morning.
Neftali Olmos, who court records say lives on west Glendale Road south of Bellevue, was formally charged with first-degree kidnapping, rape and aggravated assault in Blaine County Magistrate Court on Monday afternoon. The defendant's age was uncertain as of Tuesday. One court document lists his age at 22 and another at 29.
The incident remained under investigation Tuesday by the Blaine County Sheriff's Office, but court records allege that the defendant and the woman stabbed each other with the same knife during the alleged altercation.
Investigating officer Lt. Ron Taylor said Monday that neither wound was "life-threatening," but that both the defendant and the alleged victim were treated at area hospitals.
Olmos was arrested later Sunday after he went to Minidoka Memorial Hospital in Rupert for treatment of a stab wound to his lower right abdomen. The alleged victim was treated for a knife wound above her left knee at St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center south of Ketchum.
Taylor reported in a probable cause affidavit filed with the court that the sheriff's office became aware of the alleged incident when it received an emergency 911 call at 4:24 a.m. Sunday morning. He wrote that a passerby found the alleged victim in Bellevue "sitting on the curb on the corner of Cottonwood and Main Street crying."
Taylor wrote that the woman claimed she was raped near Olmos' residence after she attended a party at the home, became tired and climbed into a friend's car to sleep. Taylor reported that the woman said she thought she locked the doors on the vehicle, a 1995 Eagle Summit two-door, but awoke to find the defendant on top of her.
The woman "stated she tried to push this male off of her, but that he would not get off of her and forcefully held her down by her hair and would not let her out of the car," Taylor wrote.
Taylor further reported that the stabbings took place while the alleged rape was in progress.
"During the rape, (the woman) remembered there was a pocket knife in the center console, so she grabbed the knife in her left hand and stabbed the male in his lower right abdomen," Taylor reported. "At this point the male grabbed the knife from (the woman) and stabbed (her) above her left knee."
Taylor wrote that the woman was then able to escape and fled into the house where she reported what had happened. Some friends drove her to the Bellevue Marshal's Office, which was closed. She then walked north on Main Street, where the passerby discovered her, Taylor reported.
Information was not available on where the alleged victim lives.
The sheriff's office declined to release a booking photograph of the suspect on Tuesday.
Olmos was informed of the charges against him Monday afternoon at his initial appearance in magistrate court. Bond was set at $100,000 and Olmos remained incarcerated Tuesday in the Blaine County Jail.
Court records say that Ketchum attorney Andrew Parnes was hired to represent the defendant. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for 2 p.m. on Aug. 21 before Magistrate Judge Jason Walker, a newly appointed 5th District Court Judge in Twin Falls who has presided over several recent Blaine County cases while Blaine County Magistrate Judge Ted Israel was on vacation.
The case is the fifth felony sex case to arise in Blaine County within the past four months.
