Crime & Safety

Bucks Co. Spring Breaker Dies After Being Raped, Drugged: Police

A Bucks County woman who had traveled to Florida​ is dead after being drugged and raped in a hotel room, according to police.

MIAMI BEACH, FLA — A Bucks County woman who had traveled to Florida is dead after being drugged and raped in a hotel room, according to police in Miami Beach. Two North Carolina men have been arrested and are accused of burglary with assault or battery, sexual battery, and other charges.

NBC10 reports that Christine Englehardt, 24, was vacationing at the Florida beach when she died Thursday morning, after being found unconscious at the Albion Hotel.

According to information from Miami Beach Police, officers were called to the hotel Thursday and found a woman unconscious and partially undressed on a bed at the hotel.

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Rescue workers were called and pronounced the woman dead, according to the report. A cause of death has not yet been released.

Investigators watched security video that showed two men enter the hotel lobby at about 1 a.m. with the woman, then leaving without her at 1:37 a.m., according to the report. One of the men in the video tries to cover his face as he leaves the hotel, according to police.

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One of the men, whom police identified as Evoire Collier, 21, of North Carolina, was recognized by a police officer and taken into custody and questioned, according to the report. A second North Carolina man, Dorian Taylor, 24, was separately taken into custody and questioned.

According to the police report, Taylor is seen in the video carrying two cell phones. It says that the victim's cellphone was found in a bag belonging to Taylor — along with green pills — and that video surveillance showed Taylor using the victim's credit card at a nearby liquor store.

Collier and Taylor have been charged with burglary with assault or battery, sexual battery, credit card fraud and petty theft.

According to a Facebook page that appears to be Englehardt's, she graduated from Council Rock North in 2014 and had worked as a manager at Jules Thin Crust, a pizza restaurant with locations in Doylestown and Newtown.

A family member told NBC Miami that Englehardt had traveled to Florida alone on a spring break trip. The station reports that, during a bond hearing for the two men, the woman in the video appeared to be in "in no condition to give any kind of consent" and that one of the men was helping hold her upright as they headed toward her hotel room.

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