Opinion ID: 867577
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Heading: The Kidnaping and Aggravated Assault

Text: ¶ 8 In 1992, Tabitha Armenta had been a street prostitute in Tucson with a drug problem. Armenta would normally let men pick her up, would not go through with the transaction, would take their money and run, or would sell them drugs. ¶ 9 Prion told Detective Salgado about being ripped off by a prostitute named Tabitha when he was interviewed regarding the Vicari murder. Prion stated that he made a false 911 overdose call, citing Tabitha's residence after she ripped him off several times. Based on this information, the Tucson police contacted Tabitha Armenta in prison in 1994. When police officers first showed her a photograph of Prion, Armenta did not recognize him. ¶ 10 After speaking with the police, Armenta wrote a letter to them, providing more details of the attack. She described an incident in which her attacker spoke of being ripped off. He told her he would cut her up and leave her or scatter her body. The attacker forced her to perform oral sex on him. He threatened her with a large knife and rubbed it on her body, saying that he enjoyed threatening women and that it excited him. Armenta eventually became angry and told her attacker that he should either just do it or let her go. He let her go.