WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) – A Massachusetts man accused of going on a cross-country crime spree after allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl had a gun, knives, zip ties and duct tape in his car and had been driving by the girl’s house, police said during a recorded interview with the man.
Gregory Lewis, 26, of Southbridge, denied having physical contact with the girl in the August interview with Southbridge police. “I am not going to answer that question,” Lewis said, when a detective asked him what explanation he had for having the gun and other items in his car.
A video of the police interview with Lewis was released publicly Monday after Lewis was arraigned in Worcester Superior Court on 17 charges related to the alleged rape and an attack on his 67-year-old stepfather. Lewis pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail until a dangerousness hearing scheduled for Nov. 10.
In the interview, Lewis described meeting the girl after she prank called him with her friends in June. He said the girl visited his house twice, but said he only hugged her. He said she initially told him she was 22, then said she was 18. He said that when he found out she was 13, he stopped having contact with her. MORE: KGW
