Crime & Courts

Suspect in West Anchorage sexual assault, kidnapping taken into custody

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Update, 5 p.m.: The Anchorage Police Department has taken suspect Dustin Arthur Badillo into custody. At 5 p.m., Badillo sat in the back of a police vehicle on West 27th Avenue, not far from where the alleged sexual assault occurred.

Original story: The Anchorage Police Department is seeking 20-year-old Dustin Arthur Badillo, who is believed to be involved in a sexual assault of a woman and kidnapping of her and her children Wednesday, and is considered armed and dangerous.

At a press conference Thursday afternoon, Sgt. John McKinnon of the Special Victims Unit asked for the public's help in apprehending the suspect, whose whereabouts were unknown Thursday afternoon.

Badillo is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint and kidnapping her and her children from a driveway in West Anchorage Wednesday morning. He is considered armed and dangerous, according to police.

"We are concerned that he is randomly taking advantage of people," McKinnon said.

Police have obtained a warrant for Badillo's arrest. He has been charged with three counts of kidnapping, one count of first-degree robbery and one count of sexual assault. McKinnon described Badillo as 5 feet 8 inches tall, 170 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

McKinnon said the public should be aware that Badillo may have modified his appearance since Wednesday -- for instance, he may have shaved his goatee.

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Badillo is believed to be an Anchorage resident, and police say he has likely not fled from Alaska.

According to police, the victim was leaving her house on the 1000 block of West 22nd Avenue around 8 a.m. Wednesday with her two children when a man approached the family. He entered the woman's garage armed with a gun, police said, and sexually assaulted her.

Following the assault, the man forced the woman into her minivan along with her children, and had her drive around Anchorage to various banks and ATMs to withdraw money from her bank account, police said.

He dropped the woman and her children off on Boniface Parkway three hours after the kidnapping, police said.

When asked how unusual the attack was, as it happened in broad daylight in public view, McKinnon replied that "I would put this in the 1 to 5 percent of all cases nationwide. This is not the way these cases develop."

Police said they found the victim's car later Wednesday, but the suspect was still at large and had not been identified at that time. An Anchorage police dispatcher said he could not say where the car was found.

"We're still evaluating the vehicle for evidence so we haven't drawn any conclusions as to what the vehicle's significance is," McKinnon said Thursday.

Also on Wednesday, police separately said that they were looking for Badillo on a parole violation warrant but did not connect him publicly to the kidnapping and sexual assault.

According to online court records, Badillo was convicted of armed robbery in 2014.

"He is well known to the criminal justice system," McKinnon said.

Multiple detectives and officers were working the case, McKinnon said. He declined to comment on whether the FBI was involved.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911.

Laurel Andrews

Laurel Andrews was a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch News and Alaska Dispatch. She left the ADN in October 2018.

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