Police Informant Gets Lead Into Drug Den And Left There By Cops, Gets Imprisoned And Raped Twice

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - On Tuesday, the Associated Press published an article that detailed a RADE operation in Rapides Parish on Jan. 13, 2021, in which a female informant for RPSO was raped during an unmonitored sting operation at a home on Texas Avenue involving a known drug dealer.

According to the AP, Antonio Jones, 48, raped the woman who was wearing a microphone and hidden camera when she was forced to perform oral sex on him twice. She was looking to buy meth from Jones as a part of RADE’s operation.

An anonymous local official in discussing footage from the operation called the attack “one of the worst depictions of sexual abuse I have ever seen.”

According to the AP, and information that News Channel 5 was able to verify with Rapides Parish Sheriff Mark Wood, deputies were not able to monitor the operation in real-time, so they were unaware of what was going on.

“It was recording inside the residence. The guys outside monitoring the deal could not hear anything going on. They couldn’t hear it live. When she exited the residence, and comes out to my guys and tells them what happened, they verified that with the tapes, and that’s when we called the CID division, and they were called in. A search warrant and arrest warrant were issued at that point.”

Jones was arrested on three counts, including one count each of second-degree rape, false imprisonment and distribution of meth after recovering five grams of the substance following the operation.

He faces an Oct. 17 trial, where Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell is pursuing two counts of third-degree rape. As he explained to News Channel 5, the prosecuting attorney, Brian Cespiva, disagreed with law enforcement’s assessment upon arrest for second-degree rape, which is forcible rape, emphasizing that police arrest, they don’t charge.