Phillip Humeyumptewa - Repeat Sex Offender - Violent rapist

A registered sex offender is accused of tying up and raping a woman he met at a bar hours earlier.

According to court documents, Phillip Humeyumptewa used neckties to tie the victim's wrists and ankles together and forced her to have sex with him. The victim blacked out during the rape and woke up to him choking her, the documents states.

Humeyumptewa met the woman at the Loading Zone on Tuesday night. The two later went to his home in the 700 block of 5th Avenue North, where the rape allegedly took place, court documents state.

The victim was able to free herself from the neckties and get away after Humeyumptewa fell asleep. She then went to a home in the 800 block of 4th Avenue North, where police responded and found her with the neckties knotted around her left wrist and left ankle.

The victim showed police where Humeyumptewa lived and he was arrested.

Humeyumptewa is a registered sex offender. He was convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault of a minor in Arizona in 1997 - when he was 17. He also is on probation for prior felonies in Flathead County, court documents state.

He is charged with felony counts of aggravated kidnapping and sexual intercourse without consent, as well as a count of failure to register as a sex offender. His bond was set at $125,000.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"
.........Sarah Tofte