A bouncer at a popular Hennepin Avenue dining nightspot raped an intoxicated co-worker in a downtown Minneapolis parking ramp after offering to drive her home, according to charges. Prosecutors also say he also groped another woman he worked with a week earlier.
Malcolm K. Olatunde, 53, of Maplewood, was charged in Hennepin County District Court last week with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with the alleged assault last September in a ramp on S. 8th Street.
Olatunde was arrested Tuesday, appeared in court Wednesday and remains jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail. His attorney, John Arechigo, said in response to the allegations, "These are accusations and only accusations at this point."
During the investigation, authorities learned that Olatunde sexually assaulted a Crave employee a week earlier while driving her home, the criminal complaint noted. He became "very touchy and forceful" with the woman, who had been "drinking heavily downtown," the charging document read.
According to the complaint:
Police and paramedics were called to the ramp and located a woman down next to a car. Her face and clothes were covered in dirt, and she appeared intoxicated.
She was taken for examination to a hospital, where she said she left her job at Crave about 8:30 the previous night and later went down Hennepin to the Union bar with friends.
She saw Olatunde, who worked on contract as a bouncer at both Crave and Union. To the best of her memory, the woman explained, she believes she left Union with him. She said he often escorted female employees to their cars or offered rides after bar closing time.
