Two Women Sexually Assaulted In Alabaster

ALABASTER, AL - A Panama City man has been arrested and charged with attacking two women in Alabaster with a sword. Alabaster Police Chief Curtis Rigney identified the suspect as 36-year-old Leland Crowell Arwine.

Police were dispatched June 1 to a home on Kensington Lane on a report of an assault, according to an Alabama Media Group report. They arrived and learned that Arwine had reportedly sexually assaulted one woman at the home and was trying to sexually assault another. Arwine did know the victims and had been staying at the home with them.

Police said Arwine had fled the scene by the time they arrived. He was, however, taken into custody the following day in Alabaster.

Arwine is charged with first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, first-degree theft of property, first-degree attempted rape and two counts of first-degree domestic violence. He was booked into the Shelby County Jail Sunday and remains held on bonds totaling $1.2 million.