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Man suspected of holding woman captive for two weeks facing multiple chages

(Photo supplied/LaGrange County Jail)

A man faces multiple charges after he was arrested last week for holding a Sturgis woman captive for two weeks before she was able to escape.

The LaGrange County Sheriff’s Department was called to Sturgis Hospital late last week for a woman who had severe injuries.

The 35-year-old woman told detectives that she had been held captive and that a man struck her with his fist multiple times, struck her with a hammer multiple times, stabbed her with a knife multiple times and bit her all over her body.

After an investigation, Foua Joseph Tofiga Jr., 41, was taken into custody. He’s charged with rape, criminal confinement, aggravated battery resulting in injury, strangulation and intimidation.

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2 comments

Charles U Farley April 18, 2022 at 5:49 pm

Look, this guy has Nancy Pelosi’s “spark of divinity”!

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Jim woods April 19, 2022 at 3:24 am

Fact

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