Police Report Reveals Details In Alleged DIA Sex Assault
DENVER (CBS4)- New details have been revealed about the alleged sex assault at Denver International Airport in the police report. The former U.S. Marine who is accused of the crime claims he was simply involved in rough sex.
Witnesses told police that Noel Bertrand was told by the woman he is accused of assaulting, that she was going to sleep overnight in the airport. This conversation reportedly happened in a bar at DIA.
Bertrand then allegedly followed her to a spot between a pillar and the window by Gate A-44.
Two mechanics were working outside on an aircraft on the tarmac.
Mark Adams, a Frontier Airlines mechanic, asked his co-worker, "What do you think is going on up there? It looked like some guy trying to shove something into his suitcase."
They decided it was much more so they ran upstairs and discovered the man and woman on the floor.
According to the police report, Bertrand was "...slamming the victim's head into the floor several times after knocking her to the ground."
"I said, 'Hey, knock it off' and he stopped," said Adams.
"He kind of backed up to the window and backed up a little bit and put his hands up and he says, 'I'm, I'm going to go'," said Frontier Airlines mechanic Kris Musil.
Musil told Bertrand, "No, you're not."
"She was on the ground, I'm pretty sure she was lying on her back. And he had her hair in one hand and hitting her with his other hand," said Adams. "He had made some comment of, 'I guess you guys don't know the difference between rough sex and fighting.'"
The police report described it in more vivid terms, "...choking the victim by tightening her shirt collar across her throat in order to forcibly commit a sexual intrusion."
The woman suffered injuries to her left eye and head.
"She was hysterical, crying, trying to talk, but she couldn't talk," said Musil.
Police are reviewing video from surveillance cameras on the concourse around the time of the incident.
