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State Wants Bond Revoked For Accused I-4 Rapist

A motion was filed Thursday to revoke Winel Castro-Molina's bond. He’s the man accused of raping a driver he found stranded on I-4.

The State Attorney's Office filed the motion Thursday. Castro-Molina has been free on bond for nine days with no GPS or other means of monitoring where he is.

Castro-Molina’s original bond was $25,000. When he put up the standard ten percent of that bond, he walked out of jail, essentially free, the only oversight coming from his bondsman.


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Only Eyewitness News caught up with accused I-4 rapist Winel Castro-Molina as he visited his bondsman on Tuesday.

“Winel, we want to talk to you. Did you rape this woman?” WFTV reporter George Spencer asked him.

“No,” he replied.

Eyewitness News learned Thursday he may be in his last week of freedom before trial. The State Attorney's Office is asking that his bond be revoked when he appears before a judge for arraignment Tuesday.

Castro-Molina is accused of pretending to help a woman stranded along I-4 in late October only to rape her in a nearby parking lot. But a first appearance judge allowed Castro-Molina to bond out without GPS monitoring or any other formal monitoring.

Eyewitness News stopped by his last known address shortly after his release and found the apartment vacated and the locks changed. The State Attorney's Office says, since then, he's moved.

But the state says Castro-Molina also got a new driver’s license using the old address. It was deception enough that prosecutors now want him locked up.

One thing no one has been able to clear up about Castro-Molina is whether he has a passport, but his bondsman assured Eyewitness News his client would be in court Tuesday.

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