Alleged rapist dragged from Columbus courtroom yelling he didn’t do it

A ruckus erupted Monday in Columbus Recorder’s Court as a detective testified the woman Adrian Alexander Jacobs allegedly raped Saturday had rejected his online advances beforehand.

Jacobs started wrestling with deputies as they wrangled him from the courtroom back to the jail holding cells. As the courtroom door closed, Jacobs could be heard yelling, “I didn’t do s—t! I didn’t do any of that s—t!”

The hearing continued without him, with Detective Mark Scruggs’ alleging Jacobs broke in through a window Saturday morning to assault a 28-year-old woman in her east Columbus home.

Scruggs said the woman told officers summoned at 11:55 a.m. that she was asleep when Jacobs crawled in through a window. She woke up and ran into a hallway, where he grabbed her at the throat, the detective said.

The two argued until Jacobs calmed down, and then they went into the kitchen, where she drank some water, Scruggs said. That’s when Jacobs grabbed a butcher knife and held it to her throat, threatening to kill them both, the officer said.

She managed to placate him again, and he crudely told her he had not had sex in more than a month. Hoping to avoid injury by appeasing him, she said, “If that’s what you want, come get it,” Scruggs testified.

They had sex, and Jacobs left through the window he had entered, the officer said.

He said Jacobs told police the woman had invited him over, and showed officers their communications on his cell phone, but those contacts showed the woman rejected his entreaties, with each call lasting fewer than three seconds.

The woman on Facebook messaged Jacobs that she wanted nothing to do with him, Scruggs said.

It was at this point in the detective’s testimony that the disturbance began in court.

Scruggs afterward told Judge Julius Hunter that Jacobs had been banned from the woman’s property because of previous issues with the victim.

Evidence showed he window had been pried open, and police found fresh footprints outside it and mud tracked inside, the detective said.

Asked about the woman’s injuries, he said she afterward had difficulty swallowing, and a blood vessel apparently had burst in her right eye.

Jacobs has a prior burglary conviction. In this case he was charged with the felonies of rape, aggravated assault and home invasion, and misdemeanor criminal trespass.

Hunter found probable cause to order Jacobs held without bond, and sent the case to Muscogee Superior Court.

This story was originally published October 29, 2018 at 11:23 AM.