CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A man who authorities said was once a high-ranking member of a Cleveland street gang is accused of raping a woman while he was on house arrest.
Jesus Bey, 31, has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and kidnapping stemming from an incident March 4 at his home on Duneden Avenue in Solon.
Bey is being held in the Cuyahoga County jail on a $100,000 bond.
cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer reached out to Bey’s attorney, Mitchell Yelsky, for comment.
A copy of a police report showed Bey texted the woman and invited her to his house. The woman hadn’t seen Bey for more than a year and agreed.
Bey gave the woman liquor throughout the day and offered her a prescription painkiller when she said she had heartburn, the report said. The woman told police she was looking at the label on the pill bottle when Bey came up to her from behind and raped her, the report said.
The woman told police that she told Bey “no” and that she needed to leave while he continued to sexually assault her. The report said that he put all of his body weight on top of her and held her hands down.
She ran out of the house after the assault and drove herself to the Cleveland Clinic in Euclid, where nurses examined her for a sexual assault, the report said.
Solon police and a SWAT unit served a search warrant on Bey’s house at 4:30 a.m. the next morning and arrested him, the report said.
At the time of the incident, Bey was on house arrest while awaiting sentencing for violating his parole on a federal felon in possession of ammunition charge in U.S. District Court.
Bey was sentenced in 2018 to spend more than six years in federal prison after being convicted of the charge in connection to a deadly 2017 shooting outside the Harvard Wine and Grill. Bey, who authorities said was a high-ranking member of a gang known as Loyal Always, was the target of a drive-by shooting carried out by a group of Heartless Felons. Bey attempted to return fire with a pistol, but his gun jammed.
Two of Bey’s three would-be assassins, Julius Claxton and Darien Hayes, were killed. The third, Da’Montais Banks, was later convicted of murder in the shooting. He was found guilty of another killing, as well, and he is serving multiple life sentences.
Bey was initially charged with murder, but the allegations against him were dropped.
Bey appealed his federal sentence to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where his attorney and federal prosecutors filed a joint motion to have U.S. District Court Judge Dan Polster sentence him again. Polster in 2019 imposed a 28-month sentence, and Bey was released on parole in 2020, as he was given credit for time he had already served.
Bey was arrested in Cleveland in August 2020 with a 9mm pistol, according to court records.
Polster reassigned the case to U.S. District Court Judge Donald Nugent, who in September sentenced Bey to 30 months in federal prison after Bey pleaded guilty to another felon in possession of a weapon charge. Bey, who had been in prison for nearly two years at that point, got credit for time served and was released from prison a few months later.
Bey was again arrested in November, and he admitted to violating terms of his federal parole. Polster agreed to release Bey in December on home detention with location monitoring while he awaited sentencing for his parole violation. That hearing was set for Feb. 21.
It had to be rescheduled when Bey’s longtime attorney, Angelo Lonardo, died the same day.
Bey is set to be sentenced April 3.
Bey has twice been indicted on rape charges in the past. In 2012, prosecutors dismissed rape and kidnapping charges after DNA results showed he did not commit the crime. In 2015, a judge found him not guilty after his accuser woman failed to show up for trial.
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