Five Charged In Rape

Five Charged in Rape

A group of five Macomb County men may be responsible for more than five abductions and rapes, according to police investigating the cases.

Four of the men, now charged with the rape of an Ecorse woman, are John Bugenski, 25, of Washington Township; Gary Wagner, 22, of Sterling Heights; Timothy Jackman, 23, of Shelby Township; and Michael Measel, 20, of Sterling Heights.

Bugenski has taken what can only be described as a cavalier attitude to being charged with the rape. Bugenski, it seems, believes that every woman on the streets of Detroit is game for suburban youth to prey upon. He has told reporters that he has been involved in three episodes with prostitutes and justifies his actions by saying the women were "just whores."

Bugenski claimed that the Ecorse woman was a prostitute who asked him for a date as he approached her in downtown Detroit. Police said that the woman is not a prostitute.

In a preliminary examination of the four men charged with the July 29 rape of the Ecorse woman, the woman said she was grabbed from behind by two men who forced her into a car.

She said she was forced to perform sexual acts with two men in the front seat while a third sat in the back. She said she was later taken to a trailer, held for four hours and raped repeatedly.

Wagner and Measel live in a trailer, according to police. Police have also said three of the five known victims have also been taken to a trailer.

Two of the men, Jackman and Wagner, have been charged in other assaults, Police said.